Word: spent
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...have. Early on, when I started by myself, I did it several times. Back in '86, a group of seven or eight executive members of Christian Leaders for Responsible Television spent a day and a half visiting with all three networks and expressing our concerns. In essence, their response was "Thank you for coming; we're doing a good job. We'll talk to you anytime you want to talk with...
...book, A Thief in the Night, was released in Britain in late May. A onetime seminarian, Cornwell, 48, is a veteran editor for the London Observer and a novelist. Rome backed the project after Britain's George Basil Cardinal Hume vouched for Cornwell's fairness and integrity. The author spent months interviewing the main witnesses, many of whom decided to speak only because of the Vatican go-ahead...
Bhutto is an example of that trend. Although she had a privileged childhood, she spent much of a decade in prison and exile. She suffered through the overthrow, imprisonment and execution of her father Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto at the hands of General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, who ruled Pakistan from 1977 until his death in an airplane crash last year. Three months later, Bhutto became Prime Minister after waging a fiery political campaign that led hundreds of thousands of her supporters into the streets...
...very best part about campaign contributions is that they don't have to be spent on campaigns. Colorado's Democratic Senator Tim Wirth used his campaign fund to fly himself and his wife to the 1987 Super Bowl. Democratic Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii used $14,053 for restaurant meals -- some of which, according to receipts submitted, curiously took place at Circuit City, an electronics-equipment store. North Carolina's Democratic Congressman Charles Rose bought a Jeep. South Dakota's Democratic Senator Larry Pressler had a Canada goose stuffed for $225.75, because he felt it would promote goose hunting...
...minute policy speech, he offered help for low-income Soviets, ordered an audit of all the benefits and privileges enjoyed by the ruling elite, and called for cuts in capital construction and the space program. He promised to reduce next year's defense budget 14% and disclosed that Moscow spent considerably more on the military than many of the Deputies suspected: about $130 billion a year, or some 9% of the Soviet Union's gross national product. Western leaders had long sought such an admission, but analysts insist that Gorbachev is still not leveling about defense layouts. Most think...