Word: spent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...return, disconsolate, to The Crimson. I have spent more than an hour roaming from house to house, in search of a party where I feel comfortable. Then I realize I do this every weekend. I throw my reporter's notebook away into the dustbin of history...
...inquiry, into more than 60 colleges and universities nationwide, reaches back at least five years and concerns all financial transactions in the institutions regarding tuition, faculty salaries and financial aid. Since August, much ink and breath has been spent justifying only the practice of jointly setting financial aid packages for undergraduates...
...mostly Christian Armenia, nationalists are also gaining new prominence. Communist Party leader Suren Arutunyan, who jailed many extremists last December following demonstrations in the capital of Yerevan, has ordered most of them released. Says Khachik Stamboltsyan, a member of the Armenian supreme soviet who spent six months in confinement: "Relations are still tense between us, but we talk a lot." Expressions of hatred toward Azerbaijan are the rule. "They had an earthquake in Baku recently," recounts an Armenian girl. "Too bad it didn't hit 20 on the Richter scale and wipe them...
...same time, there are ways for the South to clean up its own act. Some developing nations run up more than a third of their debt buying arms. Surely at least some of the $200 billion a year that poorer countries lavish on their military establishments could be better spent on saving the environment...
Science does not progress through revolutionary discoveries alone. Important advances also occur as ingenious experimenters devise ever more clever methods for increasing the accuracy of their observations. The Nobel Prize in Physics this year celebrates the contributions of three scientists who have spent their careers elevating precision measurement to a high art. "It's nice to know that this type of work can be appreciated," said one of the recipients, distinguished Harvard University physicist Norman Ramsey. Upon hearing the news, Ramsey, an athletic 74-year-old who recently returned from a trek in Nepal, admits that he was startled...