On the same weekend, two films were splurged out in an attempt to cash in on the dance craze that had spread to America in the late 80s.
As the continent splurged on munitions, financed with debt, America manufactured arms and saw its economy expand.
During six years of undivided Republican rule, Mr Bush splurged on all sorts of things, not just aid.
Independent think-tanks reckon Japanese GDP will decline by at least 2% this year, and a further 1% next year.Why Japan's in troubleHaving splurged on new factories and tools during the 1980s and early 1990s, when capital looked cheap and the world looked like Japan's oyster, corporate Japan now has industrial capacity coming out of its ears.
Now they have splurged the cash, Mr Obama and Congress could move on to a medium-term plan to reduce the deficit.
Jake the construction worker, for example, splurged $3,000 on Callaway golf clubs, though he could have bought a set nearly as good for a third as much.
In all, visitors splurged more than $4 billion in 2013.
The Socialists splurged on a $10 billion modernisation of the armed forces at the end of the 1990s, but there was no sign of this in the national accounts.
But that 20% target is merely an "ambition" and not a binding target; greens also observe sourly that the £60m of new money the government is offering renewables is but a tenth of the amount splurged recently to keep British Energy, a nuclear generator, afloat.In this section Coming quietly Snatch and grab Not yet Say watt?
At the height of the boom, France Télécom famously splurged €40 billion on Orange, a British mobile operator.Europe's phone firms compounded their indebtedness by gambling on a leap in demand for mobile capacity, paying a whopping €100 billion or so for licences to operate "third-generation" (3G) networks.
Before the 2000s almost all splurged when commodity prices were high and taxes were flooding in, only to slash spending when prices dived.
