The strike by the Writers Guild has shut down television's favorite late-night shows, leaving the hosts to spend their days calling their agents to check out the latest rumors — and calling their financial advisers to determine how much the strike is costing them.
Host countries, for instance, can provide grants to foreign students to enter medical school in the host country; set up projects of shared learning with home countries; support the transfer of medical technology to home countries; and encourage physicians from host countries to spend a sabbatical year abroad.
Last week, when the team was announced, the hosts had to spend hours upon hours together in group interviews with the news media, photo shoots and lunch meetings.
Instead of celebrating the launch last week, Mr. Al-Amin and some of his talk show hosts had to spend their news conference defending their ties to the previous regime.
In an interview with one of three dozen right-wing radio hosts invited to spend a day broadcasting from the White House, Cheney was asked if he didn't think it was "silly" even to debate about "dunking a terrorist in water".
As for the little broken-glass contretemps that started all this, the best reaction would be to persuade the host or hostess to spend less on glassware.
This type of decreased intraspecies interaction has been termed "encounter reduction" (34 ) and would occur if increasing species diversity increases the number of competitors in an ecosystem, thereby increasing the amount of time a host species has to spend securing limited resources (food, nest sites), in turn decreasing the time spent on intraspecies encounters.
One is LavenDar, a new lavender farm on the outskirts, where our hosts invite us to spend Thanksgiving with their friends.
The fear, engendered in recent decades, is that the two-week Games tend to encourage host cities and nations to spend promiscuously on ambitious new sports venues that struggle to find fulfilling and profitable new uses when athletes, crowds and media circuses disperse.
The bigger challenge for the rookie host: She's going to spend a lot of time talking about movies most people haven't seen.
