Word: spent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Penn offense spent little time in the goal area before Harvard's defense bullied the ball away from them and reeled it back up the field. The relentless Crimson defense made up for the frustrated offense...
...father was in town this weekend. He wanted to know where I spent all my Friday and Saturday nights during the winter. I took him over to Bright Center...
...dreams of managers?" asked a Wall Street media expert. Munro and Nicholas decided to go ahead only after many lengthy discussions with Ross dating back to early 1987, and they feel they know their man. "Over the past two years," said Munro, "we have probably spent more time with Steve Ross than with our wives. We feel very comfortable with him." As in all corporate marriages, the trick will be to keep the romance going after the courtship and honeymoon are over...
...Gearheart. Such studies normally cost thousands of dollars and take months to produce. But three weeks later, after Gearheart wrote and volunteers made copies all night long at city hall, a Greyhound bus $ took the study away at dawn. The board promptly rejected it. Allen, Gearheart and Councilman Hauser spent nearly two years flying to regional meetings to counter further state objections while they appealed. Finally, the city, through some adroit politicking, won permission from state officials for a pilot project...
Tracking down the location of a gene requires tedious analysis. But it is sheer adventure when compared with the task of determining the sequence of base pairs in a DNA chain. Small groups of scientists, working literally by hand, have spent years simply trying to sequence a single gene. This hands-on method of sequencing costs as much as a dollar per base pair, and deciphering the entire genome by this method might take centuries...