Word: spent
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Instituting such a program would simply allow Massachusetts to take the money that currently ends up in the hands of organized crime, which supports most of the illegal gambling around the country. This money could be spent on services like education and health care for the poor...
...true. He was interviewing some guy who spent $50,000 on phone sex. Mort called him a pervert, and I just lost it. It shot right out of my nose...
...Miata is a rolling rebuke to Detroit, which has continued to lose ground to Japanese automakers amid slumping car sales. Mazda spent only about $100 million to develop the Miata, a fraction of what U.S. manufacturers typically spend to bring out a new model. For one thing, the Miata is devoid of digital display panels, electronic suspension and other costly gewgaws favored by Detroit's Big Three. Instead, Mazda lavished attention on Miata's engine, a 1.6-liter, four-cylinder model that uses more valves per cylinder (four instead of two) to provide greater zip. Mazda also focused on such...
...South Africans, the government disclosed last week that the chasm may not be as impossibly wide as once thought. In his 27th year of imprisonment, serving a life sentence for sabotage, Mandela accepted an invitation from Botha to meet face to face for the first time. The two adversaries spent 45 minutes on July 5 talking "in a pleasant spirit" and sipping tea. It was not a negotiation, said Justice Minister Kobie Coetsee, who also participated, but the two foes confirmed "their support for peaceful development in South Africa." By agreeing to that, Mandela seemed to qualify for admission...
...cost of such a multi-step project would be large -- at least $5 billion a year and maybe considerably more. But unlike the $35 billion spent on the shuttle program, the expenditure would produce a return not just in prestige and technological leadership but also in the establishment of bases and % stations that can be used for future space projects. In order to ease the costs, the U.S. should encourage as much participation as possible by foreign governments. The Soviets, Europeans and Japanese all have active space programs, and duplication of efforts will increasingly be seen as an unnecessary waste...