Word: spent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Someone apparently spent time in lockup honing her arts-and-crafts skills. When Rick and Kathy Hilton visited daughter Paris on Father's Day, she gave her father what he called a "beautiful card." But TMZ reports, "For some odd reason, Rick described this year's holiday as 'not one of my best.' Wonder why?" SCORE...
...gets it." In the age of Barack Obama's inspiring bid to become the first black candidate to win a major party's presidential nomination, it's time to give Reyes, Rangel, Conyers and the other minority chairs in the Democratic majority Congress the proper respect that Dellums spent two decades to earn...
...torn between working hard to become Secretary of State and nurturing our kids," he says. "You make the choice to nurture your kids, and people think it's great. But does it put a crimp on your career? Yes, very definitely. When I finish this process, I will have spent 15 years on a professional plateau." Ingram finds that his colleagues accept his dual commitments, his leaving every night before 6, or by 5 if he has a soccer practice to coach. In fact they are more accepting of his choices than those of his female colleagues. "I get more...
...Wyatt Andrews, a correspondent for CBS News who has three children: Rachel, 8, Averil, 7, and Conrad, 5. "Even at dinner parties, disciplinary techniques are discussed. Fathers with teenagers give advice about strategies to fathers with younger kids. My father was career Navy. I don't think he ever spent two seconds thinking about strategies of child rearing. If he said anything, it was, 'They listen...
...stepping up its efforts to thwart the growing potency of IEDs. The Pentagon has formed a task force, the Joint IED Defeat Organization (JIEDDO). Its more than 500 workers include "red teams," who spend their days trying to think like insurgents, hoping to stay ahead of them. JIEDDO has spent more than $5 billion in the past three years and has a $4 billion budget for the current year. The Pentagon says its spending yields tangible results. "Three years ago, practically every IED incident created some kind of casualty," says Brigadier General Anthony Tata, JIEDDO's deputy director of operations...