Word: spent
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...first two months of a mission are spent at the Missionary Training Center (MTC) in Provo, Utah, where the missionaries learn a foreign language if necessary. They are also instructed on how to present the LDS Church to nonmembers...
Luke Lambert, who travelled to Mexico, was spared the problem of returning to his college after an absence. He spent his freshman year and sophomore fall at Dartmouth College, and when he left for his mission, the school's rules required him to withdraw. He says he had been thinking of transferring to Harvard, and, when he returned from his mission, the separation made it easier...
...liberal reformer in the midst of the city's busing crisis, White's controversial personality came to dominate the Boston politics during his years in office. As the 1983 mayoral election was beginning to heat up, speculation ran rampant over White's decision to seek reelection. White spent $30,000 for a political commercial in which he would make his plans known. The night before the ad was scheduled to air, White approached Peter Lucas, a columnist for the Boston Herald, and told him he intended to run for reelection. Citing as a source "a close friend" of White...
Thoughout the five-year bull market, Harvard did not increase the percentage of endowment spent each year to reduce the tuition burden, until a policy shift last fall. At that time the administration raised the amount of endowment spent during the current fiscal year. However, this increase did not lower tuition hikes...
...grandchild to see Deep Throat? Not likely. Nor does the A.C.L.U., which explains that it is not pro-pornography but is anti-censorship. Says executive director Ira Glasser: "Anyone who uses a child in pornography is violating the law and should be prosecuted, period." The group has not spent one cent to dismantle the movie ratings but has merely met with the judges to find ways to make it less categorical...