Mr. Reef called the nation's appetite for spending "absurd," but he, like Democrats interviewed, said tax increases should be part of the solution.
He sabotaged performance by spending absurd amounts of money on assets of dubious value: three billion dollars for TV Guide and a couple of other titles, six billion for a stake in Gemstar (which he ended up selling for less than a billion), more than a billion dollars for MySpace and IGN.
Now the state will limit use of solitary to prisoners who commit egregious crimes or can legitimately be suspected of endangering other inmates, and there are rules to prevent inmates from spending absurd amounts of time in hellishly close quarters.
A fan of fine clothing, co-founder McGregor Madden noticed that people like him could easily spend an absurd amount of money on dress shirts, and decided to tap into that with partner Richard Hall. "We reverse engineered people's favorite shirts like those from Gucci, Burberry, and Hugo Boss, Maddenn said.
We spend an absurd amount of effort contorting our faces for the perfect Snapchat selfie.
And although he doesn't want to bow to the company just yet, he says he's already proved his original hypothesis: that corporations spend an absurd amount of time policing their trademarks.
Scavenging is permitted at Stratford Hall in a designated area; as others do, I spent an absurd amount of time combing the beach for souvenirs I never found.
Eventually, having spent an absurd amount of time looking for the lock and failing to find it, I gave up and drove the truck downtown instead.
They've been one of America's staunchest allies for more than half a century, and share many of our values: spending an absurd amount of money on the military, invading countries every other year, and electing ridiculous politicians who turn out to be corrupt.
I spent an absurd amount of time educating myself on the topic and became a self-proclaimed expert.
