In fact, they're being deprived of money that people would once have spent on texting or calling.
He goes on at length knocking softballs out of the park--such as four pages of text spent refuting a book that claimed that J.F.K.'s body had been switched with some other corpse so that conspirators could monkey with the real body before the autopsy.
The experiment to produce the first line of text required spending a dollar on labour (though that clearly did not include whatever the two journalists and the team of researchers earned for their efforts).
WASHINGTON — In his latest crusade against the process lawmakers use to finance home-state projects known as earmarks, Senator John S. McCain took to the Senate floor this week with an arsenal of numbers, sharply criticizing the $410 billion omnibus spending bill as 2,967 pages of text, teeming with 9,000 earmarks.
As both a Linotype printer and maker-up, Harold Armstrong would have spent his days typing lines of text into the Linotype keyboard to produce dismantle-able moulds.
The night is spent enduring the constant pinging of text messages, music and lights being turned on in the sleeping area every time someone comes or leaves.
We're able to raise money through text messaging, to spend saving lives through the application of text messaging.
Though he'd died several hundred years before glasses were even invented, the long hours he presumably spent straining his eyes over pages of text made him, in the estimation of the glasses-makers, an appropriate figurehead for spectacles.
Generally, districts in those situations delay maintenance, purchase of text books, professional development and other lesser order spending.
Scribes trained in lettering styles spent their days bent over writing tables, penning page after page of text.
