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Under Clinton, the United States spends about two-thirds of federal drug money on supply reduction and one-third on demand reduction, the same ratio as under Bush.
The WSJ fronts a detailed feature about a type of worker increasingly common in the modern office: a company Internet snoop, who spends his days checking to see where other workers go on the Web.
Even if you are convinced that the average American spends too much, or earns too little, or spends too little, or earns too much, it's not entirely clear why it's any of your business.
Bush spends a full chapter attempting to defuse a potential Democratic issue by explaining why he vetoed an HMO reform bill in Texas.
Each of these intermediate institutions is a society in itself, and each of us spends much of his life in them.