Word: spending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interest in legal service at the nation's law school still seems as strong as it was 15 years ago. At Harvard, for instance, 90 percent of second and third-year students spend time in school working in clinical and legal services programs...
...firms often have official policies governing the proportion of time their attorneys can spend on pro bono work. According to Butts, although those figures occasionally reach 10 or 11 percent, they usually lie between 1 and 3 percent...
Some lawyers cite Aetna as a model company. It permits its attorneys to spend up to 10 percent of their paid company time on volunteer work. It also encourages its summer law interns to participate in at least one volunteer case...
...sides. It paints the yups, Linda and Michael, as decent, attractive people. Their friends' kids may run wild in a toddler road show of Lord of the Flies, but the Spectors seem ideal parents-to-be. Yet they can't be biological parents. Every month Linda says, "I spend two weeks whacked out on fertility drugs, two weeks depressed that they don't work." In the bathroom, Michael opens a specimen jar, picks up a well-thumbed copy of Penthouse and sighs. There is no joy in their rituals, only emptiness and failure. Time to adopt a baby...
Individuals who spend time in areas with asbestos insulation are not at great risk,Talcott said. He cited a study which showed thatdaily exposure of children to asbestos in theclassroom would cause only one additional deathper million students each year. The risk of dyingin an automobile accident over a lifetime is tenthousand times greater, he said...