Word: spent
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Finally, Seagrave seems so concerned about building an indictment that he fails to answer the question of what really made Ferdinand and Imelda tick. What drove them to accumulate billions they could never have spent in three lifetimes? What possessed her to buy those infamous closetsful of unworn shoes? Still, the author does persuade us that his subjects, Ferdinand in particular, were paradigmatically venal. Lyndon Johnson, no mean connoisseur of cads, may serve as final witness. After one encounter with the self- glorifying Marcos, L.B.J. called in Assistant Secretary of State William Bundy and warned, "If you ever bring that...
Later that evening Sergei, with his friend Sergo Mikoyan, the son of the President, paid a visit to the apartment of academician Anushavan Arzumanyan, who had spent the previous hours conferring with the elder Mikoyan...
...from the headquarters of the National Collegiate Athletic Association in Mission, Kans., last week painfully learned that lesson. The N.C.A.A. put the Kansas basketball program, which produced last year's national champions, on probation for three years and withdrew one of its 13 athletic scholarships. The reason: Kansas improperly spent some $1,200 to recruit an athlete who ended up not playing for the Jayhawks anyway. The most hurtful part of the N.C.A.A. action was its ban on postseason competition, which makes Kansas the first team to be unable to defend its title in the play-offs...
...mentioned no names, focused on a "highly visible transfer student." Most observers think the player is former Memphis State star Vincent Askew, 22. Askew was urged to transfer to Kansas by then Jayhawks coach Larry Brown, who left this spring to pilot the N.B.A.'s San Antonio Spurs. Askew spent the summer of 1986 on the Lawrence campus but did not sign on. He returned to Memphis...
HUCTW organized the support staff using 18 full-time organizers, most of whom had been University employees, who spent each day moving around campus, talking to support staff. They distributed almost no printed literature, but relied instead on the one-on-one meetings to recruit supporters...