Word: spending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kirby's character puts it, it just doesn't make sense for a man and a woman who spend most of their free time together, who find each other attractive and who are both unattached NOT to get involved sexually...
...enlists a little help from all the traditional Bond staples. As the main female lead, Carey Lowell provides a bit of excitement at first; she's a CIA informer for Felix whom Dalton picks up during his investigation. They narrowly escape death at their first meeting, and spend an amusing few minutes arguing over who saved whose life and who acted most professionally. Unfortunately, Lowell's role quickly degenerates to the point where she's half kept woman and half sidekick...
...become a very different kind of symbol -- still characteristic of American values, but this time of values hardly anyone likes to admit harboring. Charlie Hustle is well on his way to becoming Charlie Hustler, an emblem of the gambling fever that is sweeping America. This year Americans will spend an estimated $278 billion on everything from state-run lotteries to church-run bingo. The big question for millions of American sports fans today is not "What's the score?" but "What are the odds...
...lotteries are a kind of tax "laid on the willing only." Chon Gutierrez, director of the California lottery, goes so far as to assert, "The lottery is not gambling. It's entertainment." And cheap entertainment at that, says Edward Stanek, commissioner of the Iowa lottery, because ticket buyers "can spend $1 and then spend the rest of the week dreaming what they would do if they actually...
...closest most undergraduates will get to the FAS administration is Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education David Pilbeam, who by virtue of his title is obligated to spend some time with students...