Word: spent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kemp spent much of the rest of the week back among his former colleagues on Capitol Hill, fielding tough questions from two House subcommittees probing the scandal. For the first time, he put a price tag on the loss to taxpayers from the fraud and mismanagement under former HUD Secretary Samuel Pierce: $2 billion. At least half of that appears to have been siphoned from a six-year- old program in which the Federal Housing Administration, an arm of HUD, shares the insurance of housing projects with private companies...
...photographs of the victims were assembled and logged by assistant picture editor Richard Boeth. Nation head researcher Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo spent most of nine weeks tracking the information on her computer. "I felt sadness for the wasted lives," she says, "and eventually an outrage that we allow so much unnecessary carnage by guns to occur...
Dean earlier refused to testify, citing her Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination. She spent three years as Pierce's executive assistant, and has been described by former colleagues as wielding great influence at the agency...
...spent two years and tens of millions of dollars investigating the scenario in Bracy's confession -- and come up with nothing. The Government had been right to take the case seriously. Bracy had been sent home from Moscow after reporting that he had become entangled with a Soviet woman who was trying to recruit him as a KGB spy. Perhaps things had gone further than anyone suspected. A number of people involved in the investigation are still tormented by Bracy's 1987 confession: No one, they say, would admit to espionage if he was not guilty...
...foot inside, either by drilling a hole or by placing a device on the outside wall of the code room. "If they could touch it, they could penetrate it," says former official. "At least, that's what our guys say we can do. Our best offensive and defensive guys spent a lot of time looking at this. They concluded it was not a problem...