Spending much of his youth on Bear Island, in Penobscot Bay off the coast of Maine, he had trouble with geometry, being unable to understand the abstraction necessary to imagine that a chalk dot on the blackboard represented a mathematical point, or that an imperfectly drawn line with an arrow on the end was meant to stretch off to infinity.

Spending on technical education also rose, and the number of nursery schools was increased.

Spending $ 478. 28 of that on purchasing the second-hand Bolex camera " of dreams ," Lynch produced a new animated short, but upon getting the film developed, realized that the result was simply a blurred, frameless print.

Spending on the navy increased inexorably year by year.

Spending for nurturing children for literacy before age 6 will be a large market and will have the most impact in improving the quality of life, especially those children who reside on the wrong side of the digital divide.

Since the Spending Clause of the United States Constitution vests only Congress with power to spend money from the public fisc, the Supreme Court has held that only Congress may waive sovereign immunity, and Congress may place limitations on any such waiver.

Spending the winter as a guest at a farm on Greenland with Gudrid, Thorstein dies of sickness, reviving just long enough to make a prophecy about her future as a Christian.

Spending the winter as a guest at a farm on Greenland with Gudrid, Thorstein dies of sickness, reviving just long enough to make a prophecy about her future as a far-travelling Christian.

Spending most of his days at Alamut working on religious works and doctrines for his Order, Sabbah was never to leave his fortress again in his lifetime.

Spending on the CAP remained fixed, as had previously been agreed.

Spending an undisclosed time on the planet Quintessa, Megatron returned with an overwhelming army of lifeless Seeker clones, quickly subjugating Cybertron.

* Spending increasing amounts of time and money on hardware, software, magazines, and computer-related activities.

In 2010 a Spending Review saving over £ 1 billion of the £ 15. 9 billion projected cost meant that the first trains are now planned to run on the central section in 2018.

2010 ) challenged Section 3 of DOMA on equal protection, due process, Tenth Amendment, and Spending Clause grounds.

** Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending ( Ranking Member )

Spending by enterprises is predominantly on experimental development.

The database also contains information on the emotional content of situations, in such statements as " Spending time with friends causes happiness " and " Getting into a car wreck makes one angry ".

He called on the Government to examine the impact that the Budget and forthcoming Spending Review would have on children at risk.

The Challenge of Wealth: A Jewish Perspective on Earning and Spending Money.

* A Primer on Government Spending ( with Peter L. Bernstein ), New York: Vintage Books, 1963

Meanwhile, Brown's ratings are lower in issues that deal with agriculture and economics such as National Taxpayers Union-Positions on Tax and Spending ( 5 %), American Farm Bureau Federation – Positions ( 33 %), and United States Chamber of Commerce – Positions ( 13 %).

* Open Secrets: Advocacy Group Spending MoveOn's spending as an advocacy group (" data is based on records released by the Internal Revenue Service on Monday, October 23, 2006 ").

Spending on the relatively poor South was significantly increased, while new laws relating to index-linked pay, public housing, and pension provision were also passed.

In the Comprehensive Spending Review at the end of Blakemore's term of office, the budget of the MRC was increased by more than one third over three years.

Spending four years raising money, Flaherty was eventually funded by French fur company Revillon Frères and returned to the North and shot from August 1920 to August 1921.

Spending is financed by municipal income tax, state subsidies, and other revenue.

A similar version was included in the " Stop Over Spending Act of 2006 ", authored by Senator Judd Gregg, in the Senate and approved by the Senate Budget Committee, but the full Senate failed to approve it, thereby preventing the Legislative Line-Item Veto Act from becoming law.

Spending their nights ashore surrounded by make-shift barricades of tree branches, the settlers were attacked one night by a group of about 30 Native Americans.

Spending a short time in the mining camps of northern Idaho, Miller found his way to Canyon City, Oregon by 1864 where he was elected the third Judge of Grant County.

Spending time in ordinary could considerably extend a first rate's lifespan ; for instance, by the time she fought in the Battle of Trafalgar, HMS Victory had been in service for 40 years, although a portion of these years were spent in Ordinary.

Spending by non-profits, also called 527 organizations, exceeded $ 500 million in the 2010 election cycle with the two largest organizations being the Republican Governors Association $ 131, 873, 954 and the Democratic Governors Association $ 64, 708, 253 Spending by the 527 organizations for the 2012 is expected to be double and much will be derived from donors kept hidden from voters.

Spending years in the same restrictive quarters as her sister Theodora led to the situation where Zoe by now loathed Theodora.

In 2010 a Comprehensive Spending Review identified savings of over £ 1 billion in projected costs, achieved by a simpler tunnelling strategy to reduce the number of tunnel boring machines and access shafts required.

) In her dissent, Justice O ’ Connor noted that Butler was the last case in which the Supreme Court struck down an Act of Congress as beyond the authority granted by the Spending Clause.

Spending on healthcare among the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD ) and BRIC nations of Brazil, Russia, India and China will grow by 51 percent between 2010 and 2020, amounting to a cumulative total of more than $ 71 trillion.

Spending equal amounts of resources to produce offspring of either sex is an evolutionarily stable strategy: if the general population deviates from this equilibrium by favoring one sex, one can obtain higher reproductive success with less effort by producing more of the other.

The scheme survived the 2010 Comprehensive Spending Review ordered by the Coalition Government.

This was then effectively repaid by central Government in later years as part of the Formula Spending Share.

Spending the Kids ' Inheritance ( originally the title of a book on the subject by Annie Hulley ) and the acronyms SKI and SKI ' ing refer to the growing number of older people in Western society spending their money on travel, cars and property, in contrast to previous generations who tended to leave that money to their children.

Spending coins establishes new Facts in the game, which can be drawn on by the other players, and used in resolving Complications.

Spending during Reagan's two terms ( FY 1981 – 88 ) averaged 22. 4 % GDP, well above the 20. 6 % GDP average from 1971 to 2009.

Medicare and Medicaid Spending as % GDP

As part of the Spending Review on 12 July 2004, Gordon Brown estimated that 12, 500 jobs would be lost as result of the merger by March 2008, around 14 % of the combined headcount of Customs ( then around 23, 000 ) and Inland Revenue ( then around 68, 000 ).

The previous four Spending Reviews took place during a period of steady public growth in the economy from 37 % in 1999 – 00 to 42 % by 2007 – 08.

In January 2012 the Authority stated that due to the loss of 28 % of its budget in the Government's 2010 Spending Review, it intended to start charging for car-parking on its land during the summer season.

• Spending in Education reached 6 % of Gross National Product and 20 % of Iraq ’ s total government budget