Word: spent
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...since he was 17, is sparse and wiry. Born Paul LaBombard, he was, in adult eyes, a bad influence on anybody who knew him as a teenager. He ran away from his working-class family, smoked dope and organized a high school SDS chapter. Lacking money for college, he spent two winters camping out and gathering shells for a living in Key West. He was arrested at the Mayday antiwar demonstrations in Washington in 1971, and spent three days locked up in the basement of the Department of Justice. Afterward he sought spiritual growth in a Sikh ashram in Massachusetts...
...human or animal life that may come near it. The U.S. Congress believed it had conquered the problem of where to put such waste when in 1987 it ordered the Department of Energy to focus on building a national dump site in Nevada. By 2003, the Government promised, spent fuel from the country's 110 commercial nuclear reactors would be trundled across states and safely buried deep within Yucca Mountain, an isolated peak about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. But that forecast, like an earlier one predicting a national dump site by 1998, proved too rosy. Last week energy...
Thus, considerably more was at stake in the referendum than the $3 billion spent each year by the military. One survey by the Lausanne-based research institute MIS showed that only 15% of voters really wanted to get rid of the army. The rest wanted the army reformed and defense spending trimmed, a clear- cut result of lessening East-West tensions...
...work on behalf of Charter 77, a human-rights organization he helped found, Havel spent more than four years in jail. His latest internment ended last May; he had served half of an eight-month sentence after speaking on Western radio. The charge: inciting antigovernment demonstrations. It seemed no small irony that last week, largely through Havel's efforts, the street protests were halted to give the government and opposition some breathing space to pursue negotiations...
...been irked by the Civic Forum's failure to include younger voices in its deliberations. "The Civic Forum is more experienced," says Monika Pajerova, 23, "but we are more radical." Some within the Civic Forum regard the students as "children of Communists" who led privileged lives while older dissidents spent years in jail for their views...