Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crime. Charles Colson testified that only a few days before the breakin, Ehrlichman had asked him to raise $5,000 immediately for a plumbers' operation. Ehrlichman told Colson of a project to get derogatory information about Ellsberg. Colson would then have to devise a game plan to spread the dirt. After the burglary, said Colson, Ehrlichman admitted to him: "The boys tried to get Ellsberg's psychiatric papers. They failed...
...contracts, one of $145,000 and the other of $585,000, will aim at developing models capable of explaining wide-spread migration patterns in the United States and explaining the evolution of neighborhoods...
Share Dips. As a result, the spread between what housewives pay for food and what farmers get for the same goods has widened markedly (see chart). Last August farmers were getting an unusually high 52? of every dollar that the housewife spent for food; in May their share was down to 40?. The remaining 60? went to the middlemen...
Bumper crops of many farm products could still drive down some retail food prices this year-but in view of the widening spread between farm costs and retail food prices, the consumer would be wise not to count...
...home, even before Viet Nam many newsmen were already emotionally committed to the civil rights movement. George Wallace foreshadowed one of the Spiro Agnew themes as he attacked the Northern liberal press for meddling in the South. As racial tension spread, whites in other regions who felt threatened by minority-group pressure also came to resent the press's role...