Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...couple of years ago, some guy stretched an orange nylon curtain across a canyon in Colorado and called it art. I use this only as an example that a lot of people might recognize--there was a photo spread on the event in Life. The photo spread on the event in Life. The wind tore the curtain apart and that was called art too. This whole movement-of someone wrapping up the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art in Christmas paper and a big bow, or of the Museum of Modern Art buying a hole in Connecticut for a substantial...
...impressive job of gaining the support of most medical area clerical workers for a kind of union that is new in America--secretaries have traditionally not been organized into their own unions but it would have a difficult time organizing all of Harvard's 400 clerical workers, a group spread out over three cities...
...made its American debut in Atlanta toward the end of last year. Since then, it has spread north and west. Georgia, Florida and the Carolinas have been hardest hit thus far, and health authorities reported a recent upsurge in flu cases in Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky and Tennessee. Some fear that the worst is yet to come. In New York City, health authorities believe that the number of cases could rise rapidly within the next few weeks...
...took one look at the new prices and walked out of the showrooms-or, worse, did not even bother to visit them. Small-car sales fell to 46% of the market in October and continued down slightly thereafter; in December they held 45.3% of the market. Ironically, the price spread between the basic full-size cars and the gussied-up small ones narrowed enough to stimulate some sales of bigger models. So the automakers, who had a glut of big cars during the energy crisis, have now wound up with an oversupply of small cars...
...father children with the same stress disposition. More and more sex therapists would then be needed to catch up with the number of impotent men produced by sex therapy. In any event, she insists, the socially undesirable possibilities of trying to improve potency have to be considered, because the spread of male impotence may be nature's way of limiting population in an overcrowded world...