Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uncertain response to the fiscal crisis, Mexican and foreign investors were bothered this year by the fact that the President was not behaving at all like a lame duck. While López Portillo was busy campaigning, the mercurial "Don Luis" continued working an 18-hour day-fueling rumors spread by his conservative critics that he intended to stay in power, possibly by means of a military coup. His last major act as President was a political shocker. Charging that wealthy landlords had violated Mexican law by masking their holdings under relatives' names, Echeverria two weeks ago ordered that...
...newspaper based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Wright, unlike many Marxists, does not call for violence to bring about a libertarian society. He feels that the seeds of individualism have already taken hold in the United States and that, sometime in the future, a major intellectual debate will spread them sufficiently. Ergo is the fan that can stir up the storm libertarians need, says Wright...
There was seldom enough money to buy proper materials, so Rauschenberg used improper ones. Blueprint paper in wide sheets cost $1.75 a roll; he and Susan Weil (they were married in 1950, and their son Christopher was born the following year) spread the stuff out on the floor of their apartment, strewed it with pattern-objects like fishnets and doilies, and one lay down naked on it while the other went over the paper with a portable sun lamp, making giant prints. Only one of the works survives: the blue roentgen ghost of a nude, eerily transparent. Later, Rauschenberg...
Unlike other viral diseases transmitted by insects, birds or mammals, smallpox is spread by man himself. Its sole "vector" is a person actually afflicted with the disease; he is contagious only during the four weeks between the appearance of the disfiguring rash and the scaling off of the ugly scabs that form on its pustules. If all those who come in contact with the victim during that period have already been vaccinated or are immune from previous infection, the human transmission chain is broken and the disease is not passed...
...erosion of the General Education program has not been orderly. But there are intelligent and valid reasons for why such a distortion has taken place. First, Faculty members have never shown a wide-spread willingness to teach the type of basic introductory courses the General Education program originally envisioned. Second, students have consistently pressured administrators to offer a program of free choice. They have shown a stubborn resistance to requirements that run counter to their academic interests. If anything, the program now is a vivid demonstration that students favor a freely elective system that gives them the option to choose...