Word: spent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...County, where they forgot politics in favor of T.M., hot tubs and whole grain wheat. Others like Tom Hayden, now a California State Assemblyman, chose to moderate some of their radicalism in order to attain a measure of influence within the system. But the Movement as such was a spent force by the end of the decade...
Climbing the Ivy Walls: While the Crimson players have spent the last week and a half knocking off their exams, the rest of the Ivy League has been knocking off each other...
...effort to create an image of Cineplex Odeon as the class act of exhibitors, Drabinsky has spent $30 million spiffing up his 30 Manhattan venues. But he has earned at least that much in negative press with the ticket hike and with last September's shuttering of the Regency, the city's treasured revival house. There was a rally and a petition with 30,000 signers. To Drabinsky, the protesters were "publicity seekers" and their pleas "absurd." He plans to showcase revivals at a smaller midtown theater. "We made the Regency a lot newer, and it will gross almost four...
...leading producer of corn and hogs, but these days only 10% of the labor force continue to work the land. "Many people in Iowa have never been on a farm," says Political Scientist James Hutter of Iowa State University. "I imagine that fewer than half of my students have spent more than a day on a farm...
Right now, no one is playing the pop game as cannily as George Michael. Faith, with all that body language, spent three recent weeks at the top of the U.S. singles chart. The Faith album, which contains last summer's smash I Want Your Sex ("Sex is natural/ Sex is fun/ Sex is best/ When it's one on one"), is currently holding down the second slot on the top pop albums and looks to be good for some more heavy hit-single action...