Word: spent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taken to questioning aspects of the greenhouse theory. There is room for debate over the exact magnitude of climate change that will result from CO2 emissions, but no respectable scientist denies that if humanity keeps pouring gases into the atmosphere, the earth will heat up. The U.S. has spent several trillion dollars over the past 40 years buying insurance against a Soviet nuclear attack. Global warming, by contrast, is not just a risk but a certainty. It would be a shame if quibbling and ambivalence on the part of some Bush aides were to play into the hands of those...
...students will participate in workshops and panels led by such internationally renowned authorities on the death penalty as Nomgcobo Sangweni, a former South African political prisoner who is the recipient of a United Nations Scholarship, and Shabaka Sundiati Waqlimi, who was found innocent after having spent thirteen years on death row in Florida on the charges of murder and rape...
...fact that "I Will Take You Home" is a song that the Dead couldn't have written 20 years ago is exactly what sets it apart as something truly special. For music fans who have spent the summer listening to some of the other dinosaurs of rock and roll refusing to die before they get old, watching the Dead accept and acknowledge their age with grace and dignity through compositions like this one is a pleasure...
Griffin is also an active member of the Cambridge Latter-Day Saints Student Association. And after his freshman year, Griffin went on a mission and spent two years in Germany working for the Mormon Church and doing community service...
...have an enormous loyalty to an institutionwhere you spent such formative years of yourlife," Whitney says...