11.   What Ms. Blum spent made a big dent in the small inheritance she had, but it seemed a fair exchange for the anticipated returns.

12.   Working for a living held little appeal for him, holding as he did that life was too precious to be spent making a living.

13.   Council speaker Edy Waluyo said that the tight budget should prompt the city administration to step up its supervision of spending to make the money go further.

14.   Election officials spent weeks making house-to-house calls to hand out voting certificates.

15.   Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Congress casts a jaundiced eye on spending to make plowshares out of former Soviet military assets.

16.   The military brass says it would need a large increase in spending to make contract military service financially attractive enough for volunteers to join up.