Word: spending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...requiring all students to spend six monthsabroad...
Radcliffe College recently named as next year's Bunting Fellows 43 women, who will receive financial support to spend the year pursuing projects within their fields of expertise...
...Getting this fellowship has made a big difference in my career," said future fellow Dr. Ruth M. Ruprecht, a Harvard Medical School instructor who will spend next year researching cures forleukemia. "It's a major plus to be able toconcentrate on doing research rather than lookingfor sources of funding," she said...
Some U.S. firms have tried to ease the impact of divestiture by making farewell investments in social programs. Coke pledged to spend $10 million during the next five years to fund a foundation to assist education and development among South Africa's "disadvantaged." IBM left $10 million for a literacy program to aid 37,000 black schoolchildren. Many companies that divested their South African holdings had been setting aside some of their earnings for social services, but some of their successors have refused to take on those commitments...
...brownie bars. In the process, the size and diversity of the $1.6 billion frozen-novelty market have grown spectacularly. That category includes all frozen desserts sold in individual portions, which have nearly doubled their sales in the past five years. The industry's burgeoning roster of competitors, which spend heavily to promote their products, ranges from one-product ventures like North Carolina-based Fruitiki to such giants as Nestle and Pillsbury...