And, without going to Scandinavian lengths, America could invest more in its children: it spends a lower share of its GDP on public child-care than almost any other rich country, and is the only rich country that refuses to provide mothers with paid maternity leave.
Although the Max Planck Institute also manages and licenses thousands of patents — so smoother access, via Black's connections, to key technologies for licensing purposes may also be part of its thinking as it spends a few euros to forge closer ties with the German research network.
Although the Max Planck Institute also manages and licenses thousands of patents — so smoother access, via Black's connections, to key technologies for licensing purposes may also be part of its thinking as it spends a few euros to forge closer ties with the German research network.
A brand like Nike isn't going to do that; it would be undercutting all its other retailers and its brand, on which it spends a lot of marketing dollars.
With TCI now on board, AT&T can add cable TV, high-speed Internet access and local phone service to its telecom offerings — once it spends a few billion more to rev up the TCI network, too.
The most genuinely apian aspect of "Bee Movie," DreamWorks' new animated movie about, well, bees, is that it spends a lot of its short running time buzzing happily around, sniffing out fresh jokes wherever they may bloom.
Mongolia is land-locked and still sorting out its lonely role as a democracy on the high plains of Asia, so it spends a lot of its time juggling the relationship with three heavy-breathing allies: the U.S., China, and Russia.
In order to maintain its body temperatures through thermoregulation, it spends a considerable amount of time basking, most of which takes place in the late morning and late afternoon.
