Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Investigator: "Earl, did you shoot to beat the spread...
...clamoring for legalized sports gambling which has been heard over the past few years does not really take into account the personal side of the issue. The pressures already placed upon athletes, be they professional or collegiate, simply to win are tremendous. Add in the spread and they are outrageous...
Save the few exceptions who attend the big sport powerhouses merely for exposure, the average college athlete competes for State U. because he enjoy it and to deprecate his performance by worrying if his team beat the spread or not itself, but also from the attitude with which an athlete may compete...
...lunch break came near noon. Downstairs, the ladies of the local nondenominational church were collecting $1.50 a plate at a spread featuring baked beans, meat pie, green bean and onion casserole, goulash, breads and cake. Then the meeting reconvened...
...galloping epidemic of inflation jitters has spread through the economy in recent weeks. Public fears of runaway prices have been stirred by the recent leap in fuel, food and other living costs caused by the winter's bitter cold and crop-killing drought in the West. Businessmen and investors also worry about the back-to-back budget deficits (totaling $125 billion this year and in fiscal 1978) that President Carter has estimated as one result of his program to stimulate the economy. Irwin L. Kellner, vice president of Manufacturers Hanover Trust, fears a return to consistent double-digit inflation...