In the study, country bears, forced to roam over wild lands searching for pine cones, troves of berry bushes or the occasional prey, spent more than 13 hours a day foraging.
What also happened on the afternoon of Friday 14 May 1976 was this: BBC newscaster Peter Woods, as was his occasional wont, spent a couple of hours in the BBC Club bar, forensically dissecting the script of the upcoming evening bulletin with work colleagues, over several glasses of Yellow Focus Snapper.
On the campaign trail in 2007, Connaughton began spending occasional time with Biden.
Campbell Robertson, a reporter for The New York Times, and an occasional cartoonist, is spending the week before the North Carolina primary talking to voters around the state about the choices they face.
They've decided to see other people, but that won't keep them from spending an occasional dirty weekend together.
Simon Patten, another esteemed economist of the late nineteenth century, echoed Ely, arguing that citizens could do more good giving their money to government officials who had the resources to address the root causes of poverty than "spending an occasional half day in moralizing to the poor".
The A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s executive vice president, Linda Chavez-Thompsaid said Ms. Chavez's assertions that Ms. Mercado merely did occasional chores and received spending money rather than wages were the typical statements used by people who refused to acknowledge that they employed an illegal immigrant.
Young men who said they were occasional fighters instead spent the day directing traffic.
(Until recent years, she would periodically spend occasional nights on the floor, to ensure she wasn't "going soft").
Though they still own a cabin on Soda Butte Creek, where they spend occasional weekends, the Barretts now reside in Livingston.
