Word: spending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...People don't realize how much earning money costs," says Oest, 55. "Having a job is expensive. The clothes, the car, the house with the mortgage payments. If you spend all your time working for someone else, you don't have time to learn to do things yourself...
...spur to Colino's peculation was his authority to spend up to $500,000 without consulting Intelsat's board. In one instance, Colino helped create a contract for sham construction work, broke it into three smaller contracts of less than $500,000 each, and pocketed some of the money himself. In another deal, the Government charged, Colino created a Panamanian consulting company that billed Intelsat for fees; these were in turn siphoned into Colino's Swiss bank account...
...didn't spend 16 months of my life in Korea so a bunch of Korean generals could deny human and labor rights to the people of Korea," Dukakis argued...
...fulfillment or role model, Cosby's TV family shows no sign of losing its appeal. The star himself may be the one who finally calls a halt to the program's fabulous run. He says he will wrap up the series after just two more seasons, in order to spend more time on other projects. Plans for a third book, on love and marriage, are in the works; so are more feature films. And, of course, the seemingly endless commercials, concerts and other public appearances...
...articles and public documents about the connections among anti- Castro Cuban refugees and anti-Communist activists in the U.S. Government. The ties -- clear, confusing and some crazy enough to be true -- are there, as the Iran-contra hearings disclosed. Veracity, rumor, deceit and braggadocio are hard to separate. "To spend time in Miami is to acquire a certain fluency in cognitive dissonance" is Didion's evaluation of her experience. Translated from the Latinate, this means she could not make sense out of the town. To compensate, she relies on her feel for the ominous, a proven ability that can make...