Word: spent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard wrestling team spent last weekend duking its way to an eighth place finish out of 16 teams at the Coast Guard Tournament in London, Conn...
Such sentiments come easily to Cavazos, a cattle foreman's son who grew up on the King Ranch in south Texas and went on to earn a Ph.D. in physiology. Before being named president of Texas Tech University, his alma mater, in 1980, he spent five years as dean of the school of medicine at Tufts University. In both posts Cavazos gained a reputation for relaxed geniality -- and a backbone of steel. "If he gets pushed too far, watch out," says Michael Collins, assistant dean for government and medical affairs at Tufts Medical School. His tenacity was abundantly clear...
...Cornell virus" infected the Arpanet network, which links 60,000 computer systems nationwide including those of the defense Department and research institutions, on November 2. Experts estimate that clean-up costs related to the program--which did not destroy any computer information--reached $2 million for down-time spent weeding the program out of the stalled systems...
Hoffman and Schultz had vastly different definitions of the word "work." For Schultz, it was how you made a living. For Hoffman, it was how you spent your life...
...think it's reflective of the climate in Cuban-American relations," Bueno said. "We spent three to four weeks making phone calls to anyone considered a hardliner in the world of Cuban issues. I would have thought the conservatives would have wanted a chance to speak their views, but they only wanted to dictate their terms...