The two weeks spent in Africa doing mission work as a cap on their otherwise luxurious vacation.
Postscript: There was a reason Charles came to the office late in the morning during those years: he generally spent his mornings doing chemotherapy against chronic myelogenous leukemia, diagnosed in 1983.
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Determining whether someone who was initially attracted to you for whatever reason--because you've spent the last three years in the gym doing crunches, or because you're Ronald Perelman--is sincerely in love with you for who you are requires emotional insight, the advice of trusted friends and a good pre-nup lawyer.
Imagine a scenario where children spent less time in a classroom and more time doing everything they wanted to instead.
Obama campaigned in Mississippi on Monday and spent part of Tuesday doing the same, while rival Clinton made a swing through the state on Thursday and Friday.
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As part of this determination to find out more, I recently spent two afternoons at a local shelter in New York doing art projects with a group of boys from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
They started with the vague idea of doing something in alternative energy and spent months researching fuel cells, only to discover what countless others have found: Fuel cells are temperamental and run on expensive fuels like hydrogen and natural gas.
This week, I spent some time in Racine, Wisconsin, talking with folks who are doing their best to cope with the aftermath of a brutal recession.
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.
She was also a Fulbright scholar in the U.S., where she spent two years lecturing and doing research.
Gantner has spent every day of the last six months on the road, doing demos in schools, toy stores, shopping malls, street corners anywhere he can pull in the kids and light a fire.
Gantner has spent every day of the last six months on the road, doing demos in schools, toy stores, at scout meetings, shopping malls, street corners anywhere he can pull in the kids and light a fire.
Obviously we have spent quite a bit of time, and the Vice President in particular, in doing what we can to assist that process, understanding that the Iraqis and the Iraqis alone need to make these big decisions.
Brian Frezza, co-founder and chief executive of Silicon Valley-based biotech start-up Emerald Therapeutics, says that before he started using software from San Francisco-based Asana that allows people associated with tasks to see what others are doing and comment on it, he spent most of his time in 30-minute meetings with his eight employees.
Bridget Anderson of Oxford University's Centre on Migration, Policy and Society recalls receiving the results of a questionnaire administered to domestic employers in a number of different countries, which asked what the staff spent their time doing.
D. in applied mathematics, the 50-year-old Berezovsky says he spent 25 years doing research on decision-making theory at the Russian Academy of Sciences.
With the Freeride I have trekked across the Alps from Chamonix to Zermatt, spending more time going up than down, and I have spent seven-hour days doing downhill laps using Snowbird's 125-person tram in Utah--all on one set of skis.
He spent the latter decades of his career doing brain research at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif.
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.
This ten year contraction has been forcing our highly skilled researchers to spend more time raising money than doing the research they spent decades training for, is encouraging established researchers to leave our shores in search of greater funding opportunities or to leave research altogether, and is discouraging the younger generation from embarking on a career in science.
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He spent the latter decades of his career doing brain research at the Salk Institute, where he became a professor in 1977.
Most of us spend our days the same way people spent their days in the year 1000: walking around smiling, trying to earn enough to eat, while neurotically doing these little self-proofs in our head about how much better we are than these other slobs, while simultaneously, in another part of our brain, secretly feeling woefully inadequate to these smarter, more beautiful people.
And in the time of deficits now, what is the administration doing to ensure that this money is being spent wisely?
The coalition in turn is having to deal with the legacy of a military that has spent the best part of a decade doing rather more than it had planned for or the tasks it was funded to deliver, as well as the financial and military consequences of a future MoD orders list of expensive equipment that was not necessarily budgeted for.
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