Word: spent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perhaps the most moving moment of the convention, Jackson spoke of his illegitimate birth to a teenage girl, of his childhood spent in poverty, of Thanksgiving Days spent waiting for the white folks' leftovers...
...chair of the Republican Platform Committee, was also in town, questioning the sincerity of Democrats who talk about fiscal responsibility. If Dukakis is elected President, Lewis says it will be "business as usual for the liberal Democrats: spending money and raising taxes." Lewis said his Democratic colleagues have "spent their careers building programs and spending money...
...voter who has made up her mind is Mae Eddinger, a retired school teacher who has spent nearly half a century educating the children of North Carolina...
...size of my office and the size of the % operation overall," both of which were far larger than he had imagined. Jin Hee Lee found the working environment "a lot more relaxed than I thought it would be." Brooke Masters was impressed by "how much time is spent checking the facts...
Like the host of any successful bash that at times came close to getting out of hand, the Soviet Union spent last week dealing with the confetti -- literal and symbolic -- generated by its just ended 19th All-Union Communist Party Conference. Moscow street workers pulled down the festive red bunting and banners that had decorated the Soviet capital during the conference's four days of extraordinarily open debates and disputes. More substantively, General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev convened the 13 voting members of the ruling Politburo, who in turn scheduled a plenum of the 307-member policymaking Central Committee for later...