She said that a career teaching fifth grade -- she spent 30 years doing it -- was a full and satisfying way to spend her life.

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And beginning next year, insurance companies will be required to spend at least 80 or 85 percent of health care dollars where they should be spent -- on health care and on efforts to improve its quality.

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Sir George Russell, head of the Northern Development Corporation, points out that while the government is happy to spend millions in grants to attract a new factory to the north-east, very little is spent to advertise the attractions of the Northumbrian countryside although an expansion in tourism might generate many more jobs than a semiconductor plant.

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