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Now out of that pie, the government spends 36 percent.
And he spends that week talking to the family about what do they think great art is.
Today the average American spends about a week a year stuck in traffic jams, and that's a huge waste of time and resources.
Every year, the federal government spends 60 billion dollars on research.
That's the average amount of time the American family spends preparing, eating and cleaning up after meals per day.
The average American household spends 1,000 dollars a year on lotteries.
The average household spends $4,000 a year on lottery tickets.
But Lisa knows she can pass as white so she benefits from huge systemic and interpersonal privileges, and so she spends every day grappling with ways that she can leverage that white privilege for social justice.
The average household spends 10% of its income on kerosene for lighting – that's an order of magnitude greater than what the average US household spends on electricity to light their homes.
They're getting feedbacks from their spends or whatever their activities are if they're not spending, and they see what's working, and then they do more of that.
Every year Africa spends 20 billion dollars to import food.
So unfortunately, this orphan spends most of his time in storage, along with quite a number of other orphans, some of them some beautiful paintings.
Just because a person spends her time making a piece of something does not mean that she becomes that, a piece of something.
The dark blue line is how much the government spends.
When you look at how the federal government spends money, so this is the battle right here, 55 percent, more than half, is on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, a few other health programs, 20 percent defense, 19 percent discretionary, and six percent interest.
You go to the next country on the list, Luxembourg, and you can see the red dot is exactly where it is for Korea, so Luxembourg spends the same per student as Korea does.
America spends more money on education than most other countries.
Each of us spends money on things that we do not really need.
Eve Online is an artificial universe, if you wish, but one of the diplomats that was killed in Benghazi, not Ambassador Stevens, but one of his collaborators, was a really big shot in Eve Online, so here you have a diplomat in the real world that spends his time in Eve Online to kind of test, maybe, all of his ideas about diplomacy and about universe-building, and to the point that the first announcement of the bombing was actually given on Eve Online, and after his death, several parts of the universe were named after him.
He spends his free time trying to fix up his staff on blind dates, and I know that if I ever had a problem, he would do anything he could to help.
Think about a lawyer who spends part of his time at school events for his kids talking to other parents.
So biologically, there are plenty of species that display banding or patterns, warning patterns, to either be cryptical in the water or warn against being attacked, not the least of which is the pilot fish which spends a big slab of its life around the business end of a shark.
Someone sent in H.G. Wells' "The Invisible Man." Someone else sent in Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man." "The Great Gatsby" spends the last four in the morning of his life waiting for a lover who never shows, and the most famous wake-up in literature, perhaps, "The Metamorphosis."
And I'm an adult woman who spends her life as a performer, with a speech impediment.
In museums, a typical visitor spends less than 30 seconds with a work of art, and I often watch people wander from label to label, searching for information, as though the entire story of a work of art could be contained in that one 80-word text.
The average American spends 19 percent of their income on their car, and there's a pressure for them to reduce that cost, yet they have no outlet today.
We don't measure how much a country spends on healthcare, we measure the length and quality of people's lives.
You've heard that the average American spends 90 percent of their time indoors.
So I kind of came up with this old guy who spends his life looking after sick pigeons.
Well, he said, his party starts getting ready for the next election the day after the last one, and he spends all day every day meeting with voters in their homes, in their wedding parties, circumcision ceremonies, and then he meets with his colleagues to compare notes.
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