Word: spending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem with this argument is that if corporations didn't spend their money on food, they would spend it elsewhere--by buying more products, employing more workers or, better yet, investing in new productive capacity...
...strength of comedy than just a clip channel," says Tom Freston, head of MTV Networks. "Comedy has traditionally been character driven and story driven. It takes time to work." HBO executives snicker. "Why should their channel succeed in doing original long-form comedy?" says Fuchs. "The three networks spend hundreds of millions of dollars trying to do original comedy, and one show succeeds every two years...
...payoff can be enormous. As electronics manufacturers have discovered, the laws of economics at the micro level are as different as the laws of physics. A manufacturer might spend a small fortune putting hundreds of moving parts and circuits onto a single silicon chip. But when that chip goes into large-scale production and millions of copies are made, the economies of scale take over, and development costs virtually disappear...
...spend so much on rich senior citizens that we neglect far more pressing needs in society. Children, for instance, are six times as likely to be poor than the elderly. We should be giving poor children a fighting chance instead of subsidizing the Carribean cruises of greedy geezers...
Eric Dlugokinski, a University of Oklahoma psychologist, believes five-year- olds need to spend some time away from home, but, for late bloomers, an academically oriented kindergarten may not be the right environment. If a child does poorly in a first school experience, "that failure is very hard to eradicate. You want a child's first experience in learning to be satisfying." He thinks kindergartens should de-emphasize early exposure to the ABCs and concentrate on what he calls an "emotional competence curriculum," meaning one that teaches children such social skills as how to share and how to deal with...