Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disasters. The Egyptian Mediterranean fisheries have been virtually wiped out because the nutritional sediment washing downstream that formerly sustained sea life is now silting up the dam. In addition, salt water is moving upstream in the Delta, eroding farm land or making it saline. There has been an alarming spread of schistosomiasis. Also, a water weed is growing so fast in Lake Nasser behind the dam that it may endanger the hydroelectric function by increasing evaporation from the lake...
...popular as spaghetti and meat sauce or veal parmigiana," adding, "Of course, we just call shark 'seafood' on the menus." Battistella is also successfully selling frozen shark fillets (at $1.32 per lb.) in New Orleans supermarkets, and reports that a food processor is testing a shark sandwich spread...
Pink Ribbons. The tut-tutting spread to America in 1929, when he published Marriage and Morals. A defense of free love, the book caused an uproar in 1940 when Russell-then living in the United States with his third wife-was offered a professorship at the City College of New York. The case against Russell's appointment was tried-and won -in the state supreme court, where the prosecution argued that Russell was "lecherous, libidinous, lustful, venerous, erotomaniac, aphrodisiac, irreverent, narrow-minded, and bereft of moral fiber...
...only hours before. If they had voted no and struck, the result could have been disastrous for the financially plagued Met (TIME, Dec. 29). The musicians, who were paid a minimum of $385 a week, had asked for a one-year 12% pay increase; they accepted an 11 % raise spread over this season and next. The musicians also agreed to a seven-week decrease in guaranteed work from 51 weeks a year to 44, but won a Met agreement to pay hefty unemployment benefits if necessary during all "lost" weeks. The ill will between labor and management that...
...mark. The advantage of the present system is that it allows students to express their housing preferences and determines House assignments by an impartial lottery system. Not everyone ends up living where he or she would prefer, but most get one of their top choices. Any disappointment is spread in the fairest possible...