Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unending flow of disclosures of corporate bribes and illegal political contributions to officials in the U.S. and abroad has spread a darkening stain over the global reputation of American business. Throughout the revelations of the past 18 months, however, there was one minor consolation: reports of rampant payoffs by Exxon, Gulf, Mobil, Northrop, United Brands and other corporate giants had not directly implicated any major world leaders. Most under-the-table payments abroad had apparently gone to shadowy intermediaries, lower-or middle-level government officials, or chiefs of small developing countries that had never been known for political purity...
Bill Carey went on a scoring fling, piling up a 64-40 spread with ten minutes remaining. The Red scored 17 points to Harvard's one during the spree...
...years, Bailey's annual income was clearly healthy though?enough to satisfy his addiction to flight and gadgetry with such items as a twin-engine Turbo Commander turboprop and a Beechcraft. He also keeps a helicopter, built by his own company (Enstrom Corp. of Michigan), on his 78½-acre spread in Marshfield, Mass., 30 miles south of Boston. His 17-room house there is equipped with indoor and outdoor swimming pools and nearly every form of 20th century electronic communication short of his own hot line to Moscow. The gray-carpeted lair in his office in Boston, which he rarely...
...Noebel: "He's been telling everyone we are going to sink. Well, obviously we will sink as long as he holds the mailing list." Some 70% of the school's income comes from contributions. Enrollment has dropped from 228 to 160, and since word of the scandal spread to parents one teacher has talked 25 of them into letting their children stay enrolled...
Studying to become an aeronautical engineer, Giannini was a friendless perfectionist who would often spread textbooks on the kitchen table to test their accuracy on a given point. One day when he was 15, an old man approached Giancarlo on a Naples street. He was a bookseller, a total stranger, and he told the boy about a group of students who had formed an amateur theater. "He was like a mysterious phantom messenger from a Bergman movie," Giannini says. "I'd never seen the old man before. I have not seen him since." That night, Giannini went...