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The story stunningly asserts that over the past 20 years, up to 2000 of 51,000 priests in the U.S. have been accused of sexual assault, and that Roman Catholic dioceses have shelled out $800 million since the 1980s in compensation for sexual abuse by priests.
DC just shelled out a fortune for a new MCI stadium downtown, and a new Redskins stadium, and every idiotic newsman and woman is required to nod knowingly when the sports guy makes some obscure reference to some impenetrable football play, and anyone like me who finds the entire exercise faintly ridiculous is regarded as unpatriotic and unmanly.
Aetna, meanwhile, shelled out $9 billion to buy U.S.
But having shelled out $168 million for the magazine, Newhouse was not satisfied with the measly $5 million a year it was earning.
Zhu, who is visiting Washington, told reporters that 1) he has "no knowledge" of the alleged nuclear espionage; 2) he is "impatient" to improve China's human rights practices; and 3) if he had meant to influence the 1996 U.S. presidential election, he would have shelled out a lot more than the $300,000 China is accused of funneling to the Clinton campaign.