Word: spending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...influence one's judgement of the philosophies and intentions of non-violent groups, such as PETA, which constitute the vast majority of the "movement." The $400 which PETA spent in rescuing lobsters, which Sharfstein suggests could have been used more productively, is less than what many students probably spend in a year for alcohol or in a week for a vacation, yet Sharfstein does not refer to the "perverted values" which, according to his logic, are responsible for this behavior...
...essential problem for athletes is time. Some Harvard athletes spend as many as 50 hours a week on their sports during the season. A football player, for instance, must not only go to practices and games but also attend weight-training sessions and view films of opposing teams...
Sometimes Trump shows an absolute genius for combining profits with publicity and doing good deeds in the process. Consider the Wollman ice- skating rink in Central Park, which city authorities had closed down in 1980 for a $9 million refurbishing. Somehow they managed to spend $12 million on preliminary maneuvering without anything whatever to show for it. Looking down at the mess from his skyscraper windows, Trump was displeased. Offering to do the job himself on the original budget within three months, he completed it for $750,000 less -- and now operates the rink at an annual profit...
...their new money in food" -- and, in the process, creating the current spate of product shortages. Jan Vanous, research director of PlanEcon, a Washington-based think tank, agrees that Soviet supply and demand has gone seriously out of kilter. "By allowing increased purchasing power and providing nothing more to spend it on, the authorities have created a mind- boggling situation," he says...
...involve a massive devaluation of the Soviet currency, which is worth $1.60 at the official rate and about 20 cents on the black market. More recently authorities have said it will be at least 15 years before such a move occurs. Some Western analysts have suggested that Moscow should spend some of its estimated $80 billion in gold reserves on consumer products from the West. But Soviet officials have long held that any dependence on the West would be a dangerous precedent...