Word: spending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...later, the board is completely transformed. Hitech has massed its forces around the Black king. Across the way, the White king has a much smaller escort. Sunk in thought, Wichman plunges his chin onto his arms. "This is tricky," whispers Berliner. "Very tricky. Even an awfully good player could spend a long time thinking about this...
Nearly 20 million mothers of minors are working, including 57% of those with children under six. Many are unable to find anyone to care for their offspring at a price they can afford: an estimated 7 million latchkey children spend all or part of the day alone because their parents cannot get somebody to mind them. Those who can find care are frequently bitterly disappointed with its quality...
...earn NATA certificates, Harvard trainers, who work in Dillon Field House, must complete an undergraduate curriculum in physical education or sports medicine, spend 1200 hours under a trainer gaining clinical experience and pass a certification exam. In addition, the trainers must accumulate six continuing education units during every three-year period, by going to lectures at conventions sponsored by national trainers associations...
...Antananarivo, capital of Madagascar, authorities are making plans to spend $3.8 million on a new fleet of garbage trucks, a purchase long deemed too expensive to contemplate. Pakistan will be spending $3 million to help finance an experimental farm in Baluchistan province. In Bolivia the government has received $11.3 million to spend on a vegetable-seed production project...
...such altruistic motives as helping Third World development and atoning for its World War II guilt, Japan's almsgiving is prompted by enlightened self-interest. "If you want to see which countries are most important politically to Japan, just look down the list at how much aid they spend in each one," says Nathaniel Thayer, an expert in Asian studies at Johns Hopkins University. About two-thirds of Tokyo's assistance goes to Asia, a proportion that reflects its stake in the region as both a market for Japanese products and a source of cheap labor...