Dining services at Columbia spends 36 percent of its food budget on local products, in addition to serving sustainably harvested seafood and fair trade coffee on campus.

Mr. Darin said the service has spent about $5 million so far.

Jack Troyer, a regional forester, said that the service was spending "a lot of money" in administering recreational use of forests.

The civil service, again composed of volunteers on Community Tax Service, will spend time un-making regulations and shortening forms.

The military services, fearing that they will lose funds or that Congress will cut the next year's appropriations, often spend money quickly as the fiscal year ends.

What is shown is that the postal service would spend approximately 4 per piece to sort and barcode the first 20 billion pieces.

The service has spent years harassing Aleksandr Nikitin, a former Soviet submarine captain who wrote about the problem.

The services have spent 30 years fighting against interference by Pentagon civilians.

As a result of such madness, the services now spend tens of billions every year flying fighter planes and helicopters, much of it unnecessary.

Since the attacks, the service has spent $5.5 million a week on overtime for inspectors, almost three times its usual outlay.