Word: spent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fiscal bind is one that the Pentagon should have foreseen. Carlucci, who spent two years there in the early 1980s as the No. 2 man, has long grumbled, as have others, about the historic "sawtooth" pattern of defense appropriations -- way up for a few years, way down for the next few. In the early Reagan years, reversing a series of deep cuts in the mid-'70s, Congress voted military-spending increases as much as 13% above the rate of inflation; from 1980 to the peak in fiscal year 1985, Pentagon budget authority zoomed from $144 billion to $295 billion...
...baby boomers get much of the attention, because they accounted for half of the record $17.5 billion that was spent last year on things horticultural. Once they have poured all the money they can into their homes, cash-flush yuppies have found that a garden can soak up limitless discretionary income. After seeds and dirt, there are goatskin gloves and Garden Weasels, wide- throated anvil pruners from Rolcut of England, not to mention $15,000 for a Sargent weeping hemlock tree. The yuppies quickly master the rituals and floral lore, swap compost recipes at dinner parties. Mulching has become elevator...
...herbalists too are becoming more adventurous in their tastes. Last year 6 million households spent $46 million growing herbs, in contrast with 5 million spending $39 million the year before. Some make tea from them, some bathe in them, some swear to their healing powers. Having mastered the basic basil, rosemary and sage, gardeners move on to lovage stems, bee-balm blossoms and lemon grass. The health conscious prize herbs as a salt substitute, while the cost conscious find that pricey, herb-flavored vinegars and oils are easily made at home...
...connoisseur. "Trees are my 87th collection," admits Louis Meizel, who, with his wife Susan, owns a SoHo art gallery and a 3 1/2-acre Long Island farm. "As with all our collections, our goal is to put together the best of each kind in the world." They have spent about $100,000 thus far, in part because they are buying grown trees, like the $12,000 Crimson King maple. Says he: "You can't climb a tree you have spent...
...Shelton, who spent some years in the minors, has made a movie with the loping narrative rhythm of a baseball season. This is, after all, a game of anticipation: waiting to gauge an opposing pitcher's heat, waiting for a seeing-eye grounder or a play at the plate. Shelton locates the tension and the humor between pitches, between ball games, between the sheets...