Word: spent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TIME-sponsored visit to the nation's capital. White House Chief of Staff John Sununu opened the TIME Executive News Conference with a spirited defense of the President's first 100 days. Cabinet Secretaries painted a dismaying picture of U.S. drug, environmental and educational problems. One morning was spent in the CIA's domed and soundproofed "bubble" with officials, including Director William Webster. In a majestic Supreme Court conference room, Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy paced cheerfully as he quoted from Shakespeare and the Constitution. Assuring his visitors that it was all right to stay longer, Kennedy quipped...
...there were flavors like ginger that had very little reason to exist except to be one of the magical 28. But there were always the marvelous cones, for Howard Johnson's cones were just about the only ones that stayed crisp and tasty no matter how long one spent lapping the ice cream down into the bottom, trying to make it last longer than anyone else's cone. Mon Dieu, tell Marcel Proust that madeleines are not made anymore...
...powerful, unspoken emotions. Koop, a strapping man in uniform, seemed the epitome of physical strength. Mapplethorpe, pale, coughing and looking emaciated, moved about in obvious pain as he worked. "It was a poignant experience to have my picture taken by a man dying of a disease that I've spent so much time trying to educate the public about," recalls Koop...
Diet members of all ranks, moreover, are routinely expected to ante up for their constituents at weddings, funerals and other rites of passage. A survey of 89 Diet members by the daily Asahi Shimbun showed that each spent about $4,200 a month on an average of seven weddings and 27 funerals. Thus, despite the call by Takeshita and others for campaign-financing reform, University of Tokyo political scientist Takashi Inoguchi remains pessimistic. Says he: "How can we carry out reforms when even the voters are getting money...
Some scientists scoff at the notion that dolphins provide an effective defense against intruders. Says Stephen Leatherwood, a Point Mugu alumnus who subsequently spent ten years with NOSC: "Wouldn't you like to have more reliable protection for your loved one than an animal who one day might decide that it would rather be a dolphin than a soldier?" Leatherwood believes these projects demonstrate capabilities and thus keep research funds flowing, rather than serve any real operational purpose...