Word: spreading
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...solved with its own resources, admits his mistakes and says that he has learned from them. Yet, quite apart from style, personality and particular issues, there is a fundamental difference among the candidates. Marchi thinks that the mayor's office has too much power, that authority should be spread more evenly among the branches of city government. Procaccino takes a traditional view that the mayor should be more of an umpire among competing interests than a principal actor. Lindsay, above all, is an unreconstructed activist. "When I took office," he said the other day, "I thought a mayor in this...
...NASA went overboard. The agency received hundreds of research proposals and eventually narrowed them down to 142 projects. Some NASA consultants wanted to eliminate still more proposals, to avoid the hassle of two or three principle investigators claiming priority for the same discovery. Headquarters overruled them. "They wanted to spread the goodies around the country," said one researcher. "It's damn plain foolishness. Four or five or more experimenters are doing the same work, using the same techniques in some areas. A certain amount of duplication would be scientifically desirable to catch errors, and in most cases, the duplication seems...
...specific proposals Nader suggested were not really startling. To spread the kind of public-interest work he has done on a few industries. Nader urged the students to start in on immediately available targets, like local governments and corporations. To keep the work going, he said that groups of professional students should promise to give some portion of their future earnings to support their classmates doing public interest projects...
Ithiel Pool's ComCom simulation project, which deals with the spread of messages among masses of people during political crises...
...files protection racket obviously started after rifling of important files in University Hall last Spring. But over the summer, the proliferation of locks, keys, and security measures has spread all over the University...