Word: spent
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Premier Ladislav Adamec became the first top official in 20 years to share a platform with Dubcek, the former Communist Party leader who spent two decades in political exile after Warsaw Pact tanks crushed his "Prague Spring" reform movement...
Freud called this "sublimation": there is only so much energy which can be spent either studying or, um, engaging in some other activity. Maybe, just maybe, a serious relationship will render you unable to ever do homework again...
That is small consolation to Jordache, which spent more than $2 million on its legal defense. Said Chairman Joe Nakash: "Nothing can erase four years of humiliation and embarrassment caused by the greed and viciousness of others...
...executives of General Motors thumbed through the December issue of Automobile Magazine, they found an unpleasant surprise. There, in a series of high-quality color photos, was GM's top-secret Saturn automobile, which the company has spent $3 billion to develop and plans to roll into showrooms late next year. What really sent the motor moguls into orbit were signs that the Saturn pictures, along with shots of the 1993 Chevrolet Camaro and Pontiac Firebird in the same issue, had been leaked to the trade magazine by an employee in GM's design studios. Unlike the grainy, long-distance...
...boldness of the assault suggests that the rebels were intent on disproving the government's claims that the F.M.L.N. is a spent military force. It served warning that the government could look forward to more bloodshed and violence if the guerrillas' demands are not treated seriously...