Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...factions that really represent about 99% of the Spanish population spread from center to right, whether Europe likes it or not. The price of avoiding leftist paradise was paid in human blood...
...that the "Hahvahd" weekend is the social event of the year here would be an understatement. A two-page spread in the Daily News entitled "The Harvard weekend--what to do" lists sundry parties and semi-formal dances for Eli socialites...
MOTOREDE, The Movement to Restore Decency, "to expose the immoral sex education programs in the schools, and to halt the mushrooming use of narcotics, the steady increase in drunkenness, the pervasive spread of pornography, the growing exhibitionism of filth in mind, body, clothes, and language, and the discarding of all morality in every sound sense of values...
...pair of tickets. Then he resumed his flight. Standing in line at a supermarket in Plymouth, Mass., a young couple was given a handbill bearing similar news. Wow! They left their cart where it was and dashed downtown to buy tickets. And so it went as the word spread. "Is he really coming?" asked a teen-age girl at the ticket window...
...swift spread, first of inflation, then of recession, across national borders has dramatized as never before the growing economic interdependence of all industrial nations. But that interdependence has not been matched by any close coordination of economic policy. The major countries continue to follow individual courses-and sometimes to shift policy abruptly. Canada last month imposed selective wage-price controls that Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau had vehemently denounced during the 1974 election campaign. Harold Wilson last week announced a new British economic program under which, for the next five years, government aid to industries judged likely to grow most rapidly...