But if his occupancy is more than 40%, he's going to schedule a desk clerk: his time would be better spent doing some sales calls or a property improvement project.

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Still, the Gulf's splurge might be better spent if governments were doing even less of the splurging.

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"It never occurred to me to be a photographer because I had two parents who spent their careers doing it, " she explained.

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And particularly the money that we know has to be spent and should be spent on keeping our country safe and our soldiers the best equipped in the world, that we're doing so with an eye on what is truly most important.

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Dr. TED MAZER (San Diego County Medical Society): I guess the issue in retrospect over her firing is whether she spent too much time doing that kind of prosecution versus some of the other tasks that the office may be apt to handle and people may have wanted them to handle in immigration.

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