Word: spent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Airbus has a lot riding on the A320's success. Founded 18 years ago, the consortium has spent nearly $2 billion over the past four years to develop the high-tech plane. Although Airbus has succeeded in selling its earlier models, the A300 and the A310, to 58 airlines, the consortium's continuing losses have been aggravated by the weak dollar. The aircraft manufacturer prices its planes in U.S. currency but must pay most of its expenses in relatively stronger European currencies. The consortium last year boasted a 23% share of all worldwide aircraft orders, placing it behind Boeing...
...Keven McAlester '92 says that it is the academic atmosphere and the metropolitan area that will bring him through the portals of Johnston Gate this September. A native of Dallas, Texas, McAlester says that he has spent a great deal of time in Boston and Cambridge, and felt there was really no way to turn down a chance to live in a different area of the country or to say no to a Harvard education...
...revolves around the character of Manungo Vera, an ex-patriate hippi rock star who has returned from France in time for the widow's funeral. Once a member of that Leftist clique that so desperately wants to stage the funeral as if it were a communist demonstration, Vera has spent time in France enjoying fame, fortune, and a respite from the horrors of current Chilean life. Accompanied by his thoroughly French son, Jean-Paul, Manungo revives his ambiguities concerning Chilean politics and the Left, becoming ensnared in the political longings that, according to Donoso, inevitably catch up with all Chileans...
...Luckinbill, will not accept another homosexual role. Though he is proud to have been in The Boys in the Band, Luckinbill ruefully admits that afterward most of the cast did their best to set people straight -- and to let everyone know that they were. Says he: "We straight guys spent a lot of time being photographed with cigars in our mouths with our dogs, wives and children...
Mamelodi is a black township of more than 300,000 on the outskirts of Pretoria. At Smith's request, not only was he about to become its white minister, but also he and his wife Ellen would be its sole white inhabitants. The Afrikaners, among whom Smith had spent his whole life, have a harsh word for behavior like that: Kwaardwilligverlating , meaning, literally, "malevolent parting." Says Smith: "It isn't just a divorce. It means you leave someone with the intention of destroying them. You become an enemy...