Word: spending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great day for Texas!" The beleaguered oil-patch state has had relatively few of those lately, but last week it got a potentially Texas-size economic spur. A consortium of 14 U.S. semiconductor firms chose Austin over competing sites in 34 states for its research center, which will spend an estimated $250 million annually. The consortium, called Sematech, for Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology, includes fierce rivals that have joined forces on chip research in the face of bruising foreign competition. Austin's coup could help make it a Sunbelt Silicon Valley. The capital had $ already attracted a research center...
...primary rule, the process would become messier and more unwieldy. As a result, the party leaders chosen by the back-room bosses, people like John Kennedy and Adlai Stevenson, were succeeded by contenders like George McGovern and Jimmy Carter, who could best catch the whims of the moment and spend the most time courting voters in the states with early primaries...
...indoor lighting. Says Hellekson: "The light you get is about equivalent to standing one inch away from a window on a sunny spring day." Because light seems to affect the body through the eyes and not the skin, tanning therapy doesn't work, Rosenthal points out. Some patients spend from 30 minutes to five hours daily soaking up the sun-box rays. For Dalene Barry, 44, of Washington, who each winter used to endure near suicidal depressions and weight gains of up to 40 lbs., light therapy has been liberating. "It's like a gift someone's given...
...rejected by the Senate. Well, time passes. Next year at this time, Ronald Reagan can look forward to packing his bags and heading westward into the sunset, just as he and his fellow heroes used to do in Warner Bros. pictures. Out in Santa Barbara, Calif., he can happily spend his days chopping wood and telling stories about the good old days and, being an honest man, the bad ones...
...more than 3% of all the aid that went through our hands went to waste." Even if the complaints about Mengistu were true, Fitzpatrick adds, "to the extent that food given to a country saves the government of that country the foreign exchange it would have to spend on that food -- O.K., food aid helps support that government. But you have to ask, 'Without food aid, would the government spend less on its war effort, or would it let these people starve...