Word: spent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dukakis campaign has spent some $300,000 in Texas, according to Cosgrove, and he said he expected the figure to top $500,000 by Super Tuesday. The governor's spending as of December exceeded his opponents' by more than five...
Until last week, politics was a cram course in human diversity; the candidates spent a year talking and listening in living rooms and Rotary clubs from Iowa to New Hampshire. From now on, however, they will come to view the nation as an interchangeable sequence of airports, access roads and motel meeting rooms. The frenzy of Super Tuesday scheduling reduces voters to a blur -- sign-waving supporters, rapt faces in the crowd, a decorative backdrop for TV visuals...
...Dole spent almost an entire day in South Carolina, yet left an airport only once -- to drive about five miles to a press conference in a suburban Charleston motel. Typical of this hello-I-must-be-going style of stumping was the Dole press conference in the airport lobby in Florence, with the fuselage of his campaign plane clearly visible through a wall of windows. When Dole boasted, "I believe I'm more like South Carolinians than any candidate in the race," it sparked the impish notion that the airport lobbies in Kansas and Florence probably do look fairly similar...
...Israeli newsweekly Koteret Rashit last year asked Novelist David Grossman to contribute an article about the nation's 20-year occupation of the West Bank, the territory won from Jordan during the Six-Day War. Grossman spent seven weeks there before writing of the daily lives of the Palestinians and the Jewish settlers, who call the conquered lands Judea and Samaria. His well- turned personal reportage, which in book form became an Israeli best seller, restated an old controversial question: At what political and moral cost does Israel take under its iron wing the lives of some 1.5 million Palestinians...
...produce-export company served as the front. Had the operation run its course, the shipment would have continued on to Miami for sale in the U.S. The proceeds, estimated at $50 million, would have been laundered in a Panamanian or a Bahamian bank. And the money would have been spent by the men who masterminded the deal, in this case Cuban- Americans and Colombians...