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How can engineers spend more time writing code that moves the needle for the goals of their team, instead of being bogged down by infrastructure issues or working around problems with their dependencies?
So over the course of two semesters, the Fall and the Spring, the students spend three hours a day every single day in our 4,500 square foot studio/shop space.
Every year when it comes to the cotton harvest, the government shuts down the schools, puts the kids in buses, buses them to the cotton fields to spend three weeks harvesting the cotton.
And I decided at that moment that I would spend the rest of my life doing whatever I could to improve their possibilities.
Our children spend 181 days going to school in a box.
Sylvia's wish provides us with that leverage, that access to the heart of human beings, you might say, who have rarely seen places beyond their own toes, but are now hopefully going to become interested in the full life-cycle of creatures like these sea turtles, who indeed spend most of their time in the high seas.
These happen to go down to a vast South Pacific Gyre, where they spend most of their time and often end up getting hooked like this, or as bycatch.
Because as people walk, they spend money.
And he did spend a lot of time up to no good.
Rather than wasting money on building walls, it would be better to spend on programs to help refugees to help themselves.
Now I'm destined to spend a lot of time with some unique, very, very special, individualistic and often seductive female characters.
BJ: But we truly do spend day and night trying to capture unique footage.
You want to spend the day fishing with him.
Currently, taxpayers spend about 60,000 dollars per year sending a person to jail.
I find it interesting that, for every one dollar we spend, however, on early childhood education, like Head Start, we save 17 dollars on stuff like incarceration in the future.
So a few years ago, L.A. County decided that they needed to spend 2.5 billion dollars to repair the city schools.
And Andy and his team discovered that they were going to spend 200 million of those dollars on asphalt to surround the schools themselves.
And by presenting a really strong economic case, they convinced the L.A. government that replacing that asphalt with trees and other greenery, that the schools themselves would save the system more on energy than they spend on horticultural infrastructure.
I'm going in, I'm going to figure this stuff out, I'm going to spend a year, I'm going to totally deconstruct shame, I'm going to understand how vulnerability works, and I'm going to outsmart it.
Spend your night in jail, spend your day holding down a job.
I love the way that they'll spend hours picking dandelions in the backyard and putting them into a nice centerpiece for Thanksgiving dinner.
My parents worked nights to make ends meet, and I had little opportunity to spend time with kids my own age.
And then if you look at the amount of time that they spend on these sites, they truly dominate the social media space, which is a space that's having a huge impact on old media.
We know that kids spend a lot of time behind screens today, whether it's television or computer games or whatnot.
"Tender" is another word I would love to spend some time resurrecting.
We spend so much time in this culture being driven and aggressive, and I spend a lot of time being those things too.
And what these women understood is sometimes the most important things that we do and that we spend our time on are those things that we cannot measure.
MA: Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.
How long did you spend looking in the mirror every day, practicing your sardonic look, practicing your serious look, trying to look like Sean Connery, as I did, trying to raise one eyebrow?
We'd like to spend time with him.
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