Word: spending
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...solution to millions of pedestrians who cannot pass by a panhandler without feeling guilty. Koch's advice: donate to a charity instead. Most street beggars, in the mayor's view, are "mentally disturbed or it's a scam." Many "just don't want to work for a living" and spend the take from passersby on "booze and drugs." Koch said he will lead an advertising campaign to encourage gifts to volunteer agencies and to tell panhandlers where they can find help. Leaders of charities applauded the idea. But critics said that the mayor is merely making middle-class New Yorkers...
...name recognition is beneficial to the Republican's own campaign. "The fact that Ted Kennedy's image is so set in people's minds allows me to talk more about Joe Malone than having to educate and inform them about Ted Kennedy," Malone says. "I don't have to spend a half-a-million dollars to let the voters of Massachusetts know that Ted Kennedy is an ultraliberal--they know it already...
Malone says he has already raised $200,000, and predicts he'll raise and spend at least $1 million by election day. He expects Kennedy to spend as much as twice that amount...
ORIGINALLY a supporter of Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.), Schlafly is now a staunch Bush-backer. "Liberal Democrats are for higher taxes so federal bureaucrats can decide what we do and spend our money. Under George Bush's philosophy, we'll clearly get to spend more of our own money," she said...
...what? A Greek traveler named Pausanias more than 1,800 years ago wrote of the "unique divinity" that cloaks the Olympics. The mystery may never be phrased better. The lure persists, transfixing competitors, enticing them to devote their lives to it. It leads women like Janet Evans to spend their youth in pools, logging the numbing laps, and men like Tim Daggett to suffer through injury after injury. All for a touch of that divinity...