Word: spent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard decision for me," saidFernandez-Cifuentes, who has spent the last 16years at Princeton. "This was my chance to moveonto something else. I needed the change...
...entomologist has been studying the behavior and taxonomy of numerous cockroach species for more than 40 years, the last six of which he has spent working on the fourth floor of the MCZ. Before coming to Harvard in 1982, Roth headed the Army's Entomology Research Group in Natick, where he pioneered many of the basic studies on the behavior of these insects, which have been in existance for more than 300 million years. One recent morning, Roth discussed his four decades with cockroaches, explaining his work and peppering his reminiscences with humorous anecdotes about his days with the army...
Nevertheless, most PBH tutors who have spent time with the inmates say they feel Deer Island creates more problems than it prevents. So they keep returning, Monday night after Monday night, hoping to make prison life a little better...
...truth of that observation is apparent to Noel Rodriguez Sanchez, 19, a conscript in the Sandinista army who has spent nearly two years based in and around Pantasma. During that time, he says, he has been involved in more than 50 skirmishes or battles with the contras and seen more than a dozen friends die. "In Managua they don't know what the real war is like," he says. "It is tough and it is dirty, and people get killed every day." As Rodriguez sits in the shade of a store's veranda, his AK-47 gripped between his knees...
During his long career as a party functionary, Ligachev has earned a reputation as an efficient, incorruptible manager. After a four-year stint in Moscow as a deputy director of the propaganda and party organs for the Russian Republic, he spent the Brezhnev years as local party boss in the Siberian city of Tomsk. Brought back to Moscow by then Party Leader Yuri Andropov in 1983, Ligachev was named to Gorbachev's Politburo two years later. All along, Ligachev has insisted he does not oppose perestroika. In an extraordinary interview with the Paris daily Le Monde in December he said...