Word: spent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...true, as Gitell claims, that "each dollar spent on a gram of illegal cocaine is a dollar that gets funneled to people like those who killed young Tiffany Moore. "Drugs didn't kill Tiffany; drug laws did. Crack dealers, like the rest of us, don't particularly want to get killed--or kill anyone else--while trying to make a buck, but since drug deals can't be legally enforced like other commercial contracts, they need firepower to back them up. The government's irrational prohibitionist policies encourage a handful of teenaged criminals to terrorize minority neighborhoods in the inner...
...Until about 80 years ago, most people spent up to 90 percent of their education examining Greco-Roman culture," Hankins said. "Now we're reduced to 50 minutes...
...Vietnam War was fought "in country" in that the battlefield of that conflict was the entire countryside of Vietnam. Veterans of the war referred to their time spent "in country" as a way of separating their experiences in the war from their lives in "the world"--the term they used to refer to their homes back in America...
Outside the courtroom, Wilson's attorney Raymond Banoun charged that members of the subcommittee were trying to "grandstand" and had spent much of the meeting "ridiculing someone for exercising his rights...
...even more than placing trust in foreign universities, Harvard should learn to trust its own students to make time spent abroad productive. Right now study abroad credit can be torturous to arrange; in too many cases the University seems skeptical that undergraduates can motivate themselves to learn anything of value when allowed beyond the confines of the Square...