Word: spawning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city's drama scene has been highlighted by the Old Globe Theater. Offering mostly outdoor Shakespeare and classics, the Old Globe has grown from a summer festival into a year-round operation with three stages, a $6.4 million budget and a 1984 special Tony Award. Its success has helped spawn a lively local theater community, including the regionally acclaimed San Diego Repertory. A gap remained for those seeking new and avant-garde work, but that was filled in 1983, when the La Jolla Playhouse opened on a suburban campus of the University of California at San Diego. Although the playhouse...
...special talent for inventing ones for which the necessity had previously gone unrecognized. The birth of McDonald's in 1955 gave rise to a fast-food industry that serves 45.8 million people in the U.S. a day. The sluggishness of the Postal Service in the 1970s helped spawn a whole new industry: overnight delivery. Federal Express, started by former Marine Corps Pilot Frederick Smith in 1973, ships nearly 12 million packages a month...
...Hanoverians with the numbered jerseys won't be players, however. They'll be Dartmouth freshmen, prancing around the field at halftime in one of those nutty rituals that only frigid places like Hanover can spawn...
Students predicted that the new policy would spawn more private parties and other creative ways to circumvent the rule...
...requires rechanneling a creek to increase its flow so that water will once again ripple over rocks to provide enough oxygen. At Boise's River Run development, McIntyre dug pools and meandering bends into an existing brook and added rocks and Douglas fir logs to the riverbank. Now trout spawn in streams that flow between condominium town houses and $100,000 homesites...