In 2014, the institute's broader measure of military spending scored China as spending 2.1percentt of GDP, compared with the United States at 3.5percentt.
The commission voted yesterday not to rein in puppet Democratic operations that are already spending scores of millions in big unregulated donations from unions and fat-cat partisans.
And instead of making immigration policy serve the nation's values and workforce needs, government, egged on by conservatives, aspires to emulate East Germany along the Rio Grande, spending scores of billions to militarize a border bristling with hardware bought with previous scores of billions.
Is it the hours we spend, scores on knees, listening in the dark?
Behind the campaigning numbers were 18 innocent people who collectively spent scores of years in British jails after being falsely convicted of terrorism offences.
With television, audiences can spend scores of hours in the protagonists' company and follow them through complex and convincing human journeys.
Rather than acknowledging Chicago's — and the nation's — need to end an epidemic of gun violence, the justices spent scores of pages in the decision analyzing which legal theory should bind the Second Amendment to the states.
According to city and union officials, Mr. Giuliani told Mr. Hill his door was always open, while Mr. Levine, the Mayor's first Labor Commissioner, spent scores of hours with Mr. Hill and other union officials to cement their ties.
"In terms of institutional knowledge, we didn't have any of that," said Eric Madiar, the Senate president's chief legal counsel, who said he had spent scores of hours in recent weeks working with others on 8 to 10 drafts of trial rules (and consulting books like "Impeachment: A Handbook," by Charles L. Black Jr., a leading authority on constitutional law).
Before taking office, she spent scores of hours with senior political and career employees in a small conference room at the department headquarters in Foggy Bottom, learning the physics of oil spill containment gear, the habitat of the Gunnison sage-grouse and the politics of an obscure road-building project through the Izembek Wilderness of Alaska.
