Word: spent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...members of the Committee expressed support for the educational activities of the University. With regard to investment policy, members recognized the complexity of the issues and expressed a diversity of views. The Committee spent considerable time discussing how the Board of Overseers could meet its responsibilities for expressing its views to the Corporation on this important subject and how the Board of Overseers and the Corporation could best explore the issues in a thoughtful and cooperative...
...fine print. Perhaps the most dreaded new paperwork is Form 8598, a two-page work sheet that must be filed by some of the taxpayers who have taken out home-equity loans or refinanced their dwellings since August 1986. To determine their taxes, those homeowners must explain how they spent the proceeds, what the home originally cost, exactly how much was spent on improvements, and a host of other figures. Most contributions to individual retirement accounts have been eliminated as a deduction, but those who have put money in nondeductible IRAs must now tangle with the thorny Form 8606. Also...
...Deborah was super-bright," Rogers says, "so bright she wouldn't concentrate." Rogers says she spent weeks trying to establish trust and communication with the eighth-grader. "The hardest thing for me is dealing with someone very different than I am," Rogers says. "You have to know exactly how to work with each person...
...will be extremely tough for the GOP. There are plenty of intelligent, forceful, conservative and deep-voiced people out there to add non-Bush qualities to the Republican ticket, but they don't fulfill the descriptions of the jellyfish needed to make Bush look good. After all Bush just spent eight years making Reagan look good. Practice makes perfect, and George Bush has made playing the jelly-fish into an art form...
...Senate spent hours debating the suspension of rules that would allow full debate on the bill. Over repeated objections by Republicans, the Senate voted along party lines, 29-7 and 29-8, to bypass the rules and take up immediate consideration of the bill...