Word: spread
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Growing up in suburbia, I only know about upper-middle class, mostly white Americans. When urban riots or farm failures are mentioned to me, my first and only image comes from the television set. A lot of this country's problems arise from the fact that we're so spread out and so diverse, we find it difficult to sympathize with each other's problems...
...draft would spread money so thin that needed scholarships and technical training would be limited. The universal draft may be an egalitarian tool, but it eliminates a very pragmatic tool to provide money, training, and scholarships for those who need...
...ADDRESSING the critics, Mr. Bennett revealed a plan to change the approach to bilingual instruction by shifting responsibility for it from the federal to local authorities. In a September 26 speech, he said that a single national program is ineffective for school districts spread across the country. He contends that each school district can tailor its own programs to suit its unique needs...
...Mark Fowler, being a Reaganite who believes in less government, wants to abolish the Fairness Doctrine. He knows he won't be allowed to. Too many pressure groups from right to left enjoy the Government-granted chance to have their say. In vain do broadcasters protest that with the spread of cable television, there are plenty of TV channels available, and that nearly 10,000 radio stations exist. What has become scarcer is the independent newspaper, of which there is usually only one to a community. When it comes to fairness, broadcasters have a point...
Journalism these days is more responsible and safer. The aim seems to be to spread before the reader an uncontaminated body of information accompanied by well-labeled opinions of advocates of this or that cause. From this the reader can form his own outraged or outrageous opinions. Somebody has to, or this won't be the same old country...