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With fewer resources to expend and a growing client base to serve, LSC has embraced service area reconfiguration as one important way to "insure that grants and contracts are made so as to provide the most economical and effective delivery of legal assistance to persons in both urban and rural areas."
California officials have been especially aggressive, muscling reluctant FEMA officials to expend billions on "code upgrades" requiring massive or even total reconstruction of buildings suffering relatively minor damage.
Professor Norrick might be offended to find a review of his book so closely associated with what he might consider to be trivial, but he does expend a great deal of text describing the various forms of humor--sorry, I cannot resist the punctuation-- that come from one-liners and clichés (many of which, after all, are quotations).
EPA's analysis indicates that the first year, 60 percent (2,895) of the small entities will expend less than 1 percent of their annual revenue for the rule's compliance costs, 12 percent (569) will expend between 1 percent and 3 percent, and 119 or 2 percent will expend 3 percent or more of their annual revenues for compliance.
They don't drool or wear their shirts backward, but they do expend insane amounts of energy on ridiculous "politics," dissipating most of it through meaningless infighting and petty posturing.