Word: spent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supply through police action, while neglecting potentially more effective efforts to reduce demand through education and treatment. Says Minneapolis Mayor Donald Fraser: "Personally, I'm not willing to say drugs should be decriminalized. But investing large amounts of money to interdict supply obviously is not working. We've spent over $300,000 in the past few months in police overtime alone raiding crack houses. We've brought in front-end loaders to knock down walls to get into some of these places, but as soon as we put one out of business, another springs up. We need to direct more...
...recent years leagues in many cities have spent less time on cotillions and cookbooks and more energy on women's alcoholism, battered wives' shelters, rape-crisis centers and teen pregnancy. Many have also worked to make the growing membership more representative, but old pedigrees die hard. "We've stood on our heads to make people aware that Junior League is not a society organization," says Maria Trozzi, of Boston's Junior League, which has dropped virtually all barriers to admission, "but that image is hard to change...
Costs. Some of the $8 billion spent on interdiction and local enforcement could be used for education and treatment, which receive less than $500 million...
When Helms ran for the Senate in 1972, he showed both his political savvy and his genius for raising money, pioneering direct-mail solicitations and founding a fund-raising apparatus that became one of the most formidable in the nation. In his 1984 bid for a third term, Helms spent $18 million on the most expensive Senate campaign ever, yet he defeated former North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt by a scant...
...University endowment interest, even those who disagree with University endowment policy can in good conscience support the Senior Gift. This almost sounds reasonable, until you hold it up next to the following parallel argument: the South African government determines what part of its annual budget will be spent buying police weapons, housing political prisoners, and doing other unsavory deeds, without reference to those tax dollars collected specifically from American companies doing business in South Africa. Therefore, American companies who pay millions in taxes to the South African government in taxes each year need not think of themselves as "supporting...