• Not only do your taxes go to pay the salary of the fireman, but, when he spends it, his salary contributes to your wages.

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  • He spends 40 to 60 minutes a day in it.

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  • He now spends his time as a painter (and a pretty good one it turns out) and the nation is still here.

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  • Townsend is clearly aware that he going to take a certain amount of crap for making this call, so he spends no little time in the report explaining his position, particularly as it comes on the eve of the first anniversary of the death of Steve Jobs.

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  • He said he was open to the idea of Wales raising some of the money it spends but "it must not be at the expense of a needs-based settlement which is vital for Wales".

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  • Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke spends so much time testifying before Congress these days, it might seem he barely has time for his day job as the central bank's top regulator.

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  • He calculates that the US spends almost three times as much on subsidies for cotton as it does on aid for the whole of Africa and argues the harm done by unfair trade cancels out any benefits from aid.

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  • He says he often spends his weekend pondering whether Akamai has lived up to the goals Danny Lewin set for it.

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  • He also spends a great deal of time describing the field, and the people that work within it, to the show's writers.

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  • He spends much of his book itemizing the globe's botched water projects, and a depressing litany it is.

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  • Chapman University fellow in urban futures Joel Kotkin spends a great deal of time looking at which communities deliver and which do not, and he says it need not be a partisan issue.

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  • He sees our economy operating at less than full employment and says that if the government spends more on what it labels as purchases or transfer payments the economy will be stimulated, everyone will be hired, and the extra spending will be covered by the associated extra revenues.

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  • But, it is two hours drive from his home in Nairobi on a badly maintained road, so he spends the week at the ash plant and the weekends in town.

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