The two talked about arrangements, and spent two days intensively analyzing the album's songs.

In the 20th century the metronome is usually positively viewed by performers, musicologists (who spend considerable time analyzing metronome markings), teachers and conservatories.

Jerome B. York, Mr. Kerkorian's chief strategist, assailed the company today in a speech in New York, saying his weeks spent analyzing Chrysler had convinced him that its costs were rising dangerously.

A woman of action rather than contemplation, Miss Day spends little time analyzing her own success as a teacher.

"They spent far too long analyzing every market issue."

Yet Mr. Shipler spends little time analyzing this.

He writes as if expecting to be challenged, spending as much time analyzing the reasons for the artist's neglect as he does building a fresh case in support of his work.

Now, market participants said, bankers spend as much time analyzing the potential effect that a deal could have on their employers' reputations as they do examining the relevant legal and accounting rules.

At the time, Uhura had thought it was a hackneyed teacher's phrase, perhaps a way to justify a life spent analyzing other people's field studies.

They spend too much time analyzing children and not enough time actually seeing them or paying attention to them.