Word: spent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like bargain-hungry shoppers rattling the racks at a department-store sale, foreigners are stocking up on American corporations and real estate. Last week the Commerce Department reported that overseas investors spent $65 billion on U.S. assets last year, up from $40.3 billion in 1987. The Government noted a pronounced jump in large transactions: the number of foreign investments worth more than $1 billion doubled from six to twelve...
...Tarazi spent the fall semester of 1987 studying in Cairo, where he says he realized Palestinians could count on little help from their Arab neighbors...
Although Lee says he enjoyed the job, he notes that it took much more time and commitment than he had ever expected. He estimates that he spent more than 20 hours a week at the job, much of the time devoted to unglamorous paper and leg-work...
...experience he recounts from the period wasformative in molding his commitment to opening upeducational opportunities to Blacks. New YorkUniversity spent eight months filming adocumentary about Watson's school, and the nightit was released, "I'll never forget how I cried,"he says. The reason: "The entire movie was justhorrendous--it just basically said that there wasno talent [at his school], none...
...this a university which, in many respects, has lost sight of its intellectual mission. The Faculty now spends its energy fighting with the administration about converting a gas station site into a hotel or offices. More effort seems to be spent on improving the return on the University endowment than on ensuring that undergraduates are receiving the proper education...