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The request for lower rates originated with the Southern railway, which has spent a good deal of time and money developing a 100-ton hopper car with which it says it can move grain at about half what it costs in the conventional, smaller car.
Athanasius spent a good deal of his energy on polemical writings against his theological opponents.
Consumers equalize the marginal utility ( amount of satisfaction ) of the last dollar spent on each good.
The years he spent in Southsea had been the most miserable of his life to that point, but his good fortune at securing a position at Midhurst Grammar School meant that Wells could continue his self-education in earnest.
Throughout their raids on the Eastern Roman Empire, the Huns had maintained good relations with the Western Empire, this was due in no small part to their friendship with Flavius Aetius, a powerful Roman general ( sometimes even referred to as the de facto ruler of the Western Empire ) who had spent some time with the Huns.
Part of a well-established and colorful Boston family, Melville's father spent a good deal of time abroad as a commission merchant and an importer of French dry goods.
Hewitt spent much time in the late stages of 2004 working with his former coach and good friend, Roger Rasheed, on bulking up his physique.
Now choose any consumer purchasing both goods, and measure his utility in such units that in equilibrium his marginal utility of money ( the increase in utility due to the last unit of money spent on each good ), MU < sub > 1 </ sub >/ p < sub > 1 </ sub >= MU < sub > 2 </ sub >/ p < sub > 2 </ sub >, is 1.
He spent his entire school career on the verge of flunking out and consequently was not an especially good speller.
" As Shelly Kagan says, “ Given the parameters of the actual world, there is no question that …( maximally )… promoting the good would require a life of hardship, self-denial, and austerity … a life spent promoting the good would be a severe one indeed .”
Anderson was not competing in the Iowa caucuses and spent less than $ 2000 in the state, but he finished with a surprising 4. 3 % of the vote, good for sixth place.
Raphael led a " nomadic " life, working in various centres in Northern Italy, but spent a good deal of time in Florence, perhaps from about 1504.
Penny candy became the first material good that children spent their own money on.
Yoritomo's second son and third shogun Minamoto no Sanetomo spent most of his life staying out of politics and writing good poetry, but was nonetheless assassinated in February 1219 by his nephew Kugyō under the giant ginkgo tree that still stands at Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū.
Erle Stanley Gardner " had spent more than twenty years practicing law in California, and the knowledge he gained was put to good use in the Perry Mason stories, which hinge on points of law, forensic medicine or science as clever as a watch mechanism ... and also the total lack of characterization ".
Although he returned to serve as a coach for the Giants from –, he spent a good portion of that time in Saranac Lake fighting the illness, initially at the Trudeau Sanitorium, and later in a house that he had built.
Resolved that their child should have a good life, she spent nights with or became mistress of various rich men but would never marry because her heart belonged always to the writer.
He then spent a period of years roaming the west, working for various railroads as a roundhouse mechanic with a reputation of being good at valve-setting jobs.
He apparently spent a good deal of time in Parliament on the Opposition benches before his party won the general election.
George Washington spent a good portion of his young life in Winchester helping survey the Fairfax land grant for Thomas Fairfax, Sixth Lord Fairfax, as well as performing surveying work for Colonel Wood.
It is evident from Asser's account that he spent a good deal of time with Alfred: he recounts meeting Alfred's mother-in-law, Eadburh ( who is not the same Eadburh who died as a begger in Pavia ), on many occasions ; and says that he has often seen Alfred hunting.
Native Americans crossed this area, and even spent summers here where the fishing was good and summer berries plentiful.
Instead he spent his energies on the administration of his diocese, but remained on good terms with the king.

spent and deal
( 1 ) A great deal of time was spent on processes for solving marital differences.
Angilbert, in contrast, spent a great deal rebuilding Saint-Riquier, and when he completed it Charlemagne spent Easter of the year 800 there.
He spent a great deal of time working on these books, which he tells us he gradually wrote through the many stressful times of his reign to refresh his mind.
Carrier battle groups devote a great deal of planning to efficiently conduct underway replenishment to minimize the time spent conducting replenishment.
By his own account, he spent a great deal of time in the Oak Knoll Naval Hospital's library, where he would have encountered the work of Freud and other psychoanalysts.
Given that the dispute with Pizarro over Cuzco had kept intensifying, Almagro spent a great deal of time and money equipping a company of 500 men for a new exploration south of Peru.
Aristide spent years negotiating with the Convergence Démocratique on new elections, but the Convergence's inability to develop a sufficient electoral base made elections unattractive, and it rejected every deal offered, preferring to call for a US invasion to topple Aristide.
Adenauer found relaxation and great enjoyment in the Italian game of bocce and spent a great deal of his post political career playing this game.
Given the repeated failures and frustrations of workers ' revolutions and movements, Marx also sought to understand capitalism, and spent a great deal of time in the reading room of the British Museum studying and reflecting on the works of political economists and on economic data.
Although disputed by some, the ledger books of Takeda clearly show that Ueshiba spent a great deal of time training in Daitō-ryū between 1915 and 1937.
Like a growing number of aristocrats in the late 4th and early 5th centuries who were entering the clergy rather than taking up the more usual administrative careers in the imperial service, Paulinus spent a great deal of his money on his chosen church and city.
Julius spent the bulk of his time, and a great deal of Papal money, on entertainments at the Villa Giulia, created for him by Vignola.
Peckinpah spent a great deal of his life in Mexico after his marriage to Palacios, eventually buying property in the country.
The Stems, with a new drummer, David Shaw, on board spent most of 1986 touring to promote their EP, including national tours supporting Flamin ' Groovies and the Hoodoo Gurus, and also seeking a label deal.
Americans spent a great deal of time in court, as private lawsuits were very common.
His father's studio was located nearby and William spent a great deal of time there, and met many of the city's artists and writers.
From 1906 to 1908 Kandinsky spent a great deal of time travelling across Europe ( he was an associate of the Blue Rose symbolist group of Moscow ), until he settled in the small Bavarian town of Murnau.
Once again, he spent a great deal of money to renovate the house.
Using an ethnoarchaeological comparison, he looked at how hunters amongst the Nunamiut Eskimo of north central Alaska spent a great deal of time in a certain area simply waiting for prey to arrive there, and that during this period, they undertook other tasks to pass the time, such as the carving of various objects, including a wooden mould for a mask, a horn spoon and an ivory needle, as well as repairing a skin pouch and a pair of caribou skin socks.

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