• Weak profits will hurt investment, and consumers will not spend freely if they believe jobs will be shed.

    ECONOMIST: Productivity growth

  • They're profitable consumers, too: Kids use more minutes on their cell plans and spend freely on premium, paid services.

    FORBES: An 'Incredible' Marketing Ploy

  • Russians also spend freely on clothing and footwear, which gobble 9% of their outlays, versus just 4% for ostensibly hungry U.S. consumers.

    FORBES: How The World Spends Its Money

  • Advocates of such curbs argue that if corporations can spend freely at election time, their deep pockets will give them undue influence and corrupt the political process.

    ECONOMIST: American politics

  • Evans's shrewdness and determination, along with his willingness to spend freely, secured him the site against competition from French, Italian and American archaeologists, in a scramble among the Great Powers for a treasure trove to rival Heinrich Schliemann's excavations at Troy and Mycenae on the mainland.

    ECONOMIST: Bullshot

  • He was not everybody's choice for the job after that but having been given it on a full-time basis in mid-May and then allowed to spend freely enough to sign 12 players, he cannot have expected he would have been out of a job before the Premier League boys had even got underway.

    BBC: The Scrimmage: Norwich City talk

  • One is that, if consumers do decide to spend more freely, all the main elements of a durable economic recovery will at last be at hand.

    ECONOMIST: Are consumers about to jump in and complete the recovery?

  • At a minimum, both seemed to agree, a new local-government law must be passed so as to give municipalities (including Albanian-dominated ones) the power to raise and spend money freely.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

  • Can China afford to spend so freely?

    ECONOMIST: Chinese consumption is about much more than shopping

  • To paraphrase Milton Friedman, we spend the money of others a lot more freely than we do our own.

    FORBES: What Would Ben Franklin Say About An America In Decline?

  • Each will teach an identical curriculum, and not only will pupils be able to move freely between them, they will be expected to spend at least a year studying abroad as boarders.

    ECONOMIST: Education

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