Word: spent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MORE erudite undergraduates seek something cultured and scenic. They flock towards Mexico or the Carribean Islands, where the ocean is blue and the drinking age ignored. The most difficult part of this sort of trip, though, is gathering information and making arrangements. One of my room-mates spent the better part of an afternoon shrieking, "Habla Ingles?" into a telephone without getting an intelligible response--but it might have been the connection...
...nine homeless people had spent a month living in tents on the lot, where MIT plans to build a 350-room hotel as part of its 27-acre University Park development. On the morning of November 20, campus police evicted the group of neighborhood activists and homeless people sleeping in the camp, arresting eight...
...drug barons may have brought only a superficial prosperity to Medellin. "Their money hasn't created much employment because they haven't invested in productive infrastructure," says Juan Gomez Martinez, publisher of Medellin's biggest daily newspaper, El Colombiano (circ. 100,000), and a candidate for mayor. "They have spent a lot of money on imported luxuries." Escobar, for example, is said to have imported gold-plated bathroom fittings for a penthouse he frequently used. His wife had more shoes in her closet, according to local lore, than Imelda Marcos. The penthouse was abandoned by the Escobars last January, after...
Gore, up close, can strike an idealistic note, talking about starvation in the sub-Sahara and the $1 trillion spent a year "on new ways to kill people." In his stump speeches, he sounds off about engineering fundamental change rather than "tinkering around the edges." Gore does have a feeling for how such forces could affect America's future. Yet at the moment, just as the campaign spotlight hits him, he is latching on to various populist code phrases that hardly do justice to the message he could convey...
Whether his post was U.N. Ambassador, CIA director or Vice President, George Bush has always found himself taking orders rather than taking charge. Though Bush has spent two decades in public service, many who know him find it difficult to imagine what he would do if he finally stepped into the Oval Office as Commander in Chief. One charitable forecaster says Bush's leadership would be "pragmatic, noncharismatic." But a blunter G.O.P. policy expert predicts that a Bush presidency would be "mediocre...