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He spent the next four months sidelined on the injured list, returning in time to make only nine more starts down the stretch.

The hearing was told of children who spent 19 hours a day playing video games, and young offenders who were only given 45 minutes outside of their cell.

The object of his growl was a journalist who spent two years battling him on the Dodgers beat.

"Conference, their time at college or university should be spent learning or training, not working every hour God sends," she said.

Kennedy’s tactics owe a lot to the anti-abortion movement, which spent decades repackaging their efforts to destroy women’s rights as a crusade to “protect” them from supposedly evil doctors eager to inflict abortions on them.