Word: spent
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...Council formed a campus-wide consortium on Minority and Women faculty, uniting dozens of campus organizations of different ideologies, and spent the year lobbying the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on the need for improving and strengthening the faculty's recruitment procedures for qualified and distinguished minority and women scholars. After conducting individual interviews with key faculty members, a campus-wide petition which garnered nearly 2500 signatures, and a carefully orchestrated letter-writing campaign, the Council--along with the many student groups who supported the effort--succeeded in getting the faculty to adopt changes in its recruitment methods...
...supporters, including Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot and the National Organization for Women, she is Mother Courage personified. Dr. Elizabeth Morgan, 42, a plastic surgeon, has spent two years in jail -- without benefit of trial -- for civil contempt of court. Her offense: refusing to disclose the whereabouts of her daughter Hilary, now 7, to Washington Judge Herbert B. Dixon Jr., who had ordered unsupervised visits with her ex-husband, oral surgeon Eric Foretich, 46, whom Morgan charges with sexually abusing the child...
Union supporters ratified the contract by a vote of 1151-98 days after the agreement was reached. And the two chief negotiators, joined by union contract administrator Marie Manna and a host of lawyers, spent the rest of the summer ironing out the final language of the document...
Dragomirescu and Minkus spent their vacations advancing to the doubles semifinals of the National Amateur Women's Championships. Dragomirescu also advanced to the finals of that tournament in the singles bracket...
Stewart has taken a leave of absence from the Law School for the time being. Like many of his colleagues who have spent similar stints in Washington--including Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence and former Solicitor General Charles L. Fried--Stewart is expected to return to the Law School after his term at Justice...