Word: spent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long description of carnal copulation which would have done carnal copulation irreparable damage if it hadn't been quite as deeply rooted." And he could make fun of himself, including his diminutive (5 ft. 6 in.) height. Writing from Italy in 1956, where he and his family spent a year, he described his rented palazzo: "There is only one chair in the salon where I can sit and have my feet touch the floor and there are two chairs where my feet don't even hang over the edge...
...other ways as well, the world showed that it will not wait for Bush's Inauguration. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, in Washington for valedictory visits to Reagan, took Bush aside to voice their concerns about the U.S. economy. (Thatcher, interestingly, spent as much time with Greenspan as with Bush.) Meanwhile, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, in yet another deft diplomatic thrust, announced that he would make a surprise visit to the United Nations next month. The President and President-elect ruled out any impromptu superpower bargaining. Still, complained a senior Bush foreign policy adviser...
...Kennedy put it, that it is "much easier to give the speeches than to make the judgments." Bush won the White House by promising no new taxes, no significant spending cuts -- no pain. Now he has moved into the world of knuckle-biting trade-offs and compromise. Having spent much of his adult life striving to be President, George Bush finally is getting his chance to act like one -- and sooner than he expected...
...financially troubled Monitor, which has spent millions in recent years developing a radio service, a worldwide shortwave operation, a cable TV program and a monthly magazine, the editors were shocked when a cost-cutting proposal they had developed at management's behest was rejected outright in favor of a vastly different plan that would eliminate some of the paper's prized international bureaus. "No self-respecting editor could accept such a downgrading of the importance of the daily newspaper's content and such a compromising of its editorial control and integrity," wrote Anable of the new plan in his letter...
...bring unnecessary suits. Consumer activists replied that insurers were still making healthy profits in the state and noted that companies were able to spend $70 million to fight Proposition 103 and promote alternatives on the ballot. (The measure's sponsors, led by Rosenfield and consumer advocate Ralph Nader, spent $2.3 million to get it passed...