Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...introduced, the drastic dropoff in the nation's bellwether manufacturing industry is al ready threatening the recession-plagued economy. The auto slump is stirring fears among economists that sales of such smaller-ticket items as appliances and television sets are in line for further declines as the ripples spread throughout the economy. But the first to feel the effects of a prolonged slump would be steel, rubber and glassmakers, whose products go into automobiles (see diagram...
...change to meatless days," she says. "Students here will one day be in the food industry, on boards of health, and they'll be heads of families. They should be educated consumers." Shore sees a growing interest in nutrition among students and is considering a number of ways to spread that interest even further--including showing educational videotapes on the subject to students in the University Health Services waiting room...
...last month with a minor dispute over a change in shifts in one Paris mail-sorting station. But by last week France was facing its worst labor unrest since the protests of May 1968 that nearly toppled Charles de Gaulle. The postal spat quickly developed into a strike that spread to the entire mail system, paralyzing thousands of dependent businesses. In the past fortnight meanwhile, coal miners, railway men, electric-utility workers, hospital employees, customs officials, Paris bus drivers and even veterinarians have walked off their jobs for at least a day. Last week Interior Minister Michel Poniatowski outraged union...
...Democrats rolled up their largest majority in the House in a decade, the gains were spread thinly but widely across the U.S. Except for an impressive five-seat switch in once-Republican Indiana, the pickup was piecemeal: another five seats in New York's big delegation; four each added in New Jersey and California; mostly singles and doubles, if any, in other states. Yet the net result was a solid 43-member boost for the Democrats, providing a 291-to-144 advantage-big enough for majority leaders to ram through almost any legislation they desire but not so large...
...said the theory first appeared in 1965 when Patricia Jacobs found a higher than expected number of XYY males in a Scotch institution for the criminally insane. He said the idea spread when Richard Speck killed eight student nurses in Chicago in 1966, and the press incorrectly reported that...