Word: spreading
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...give it back. According to this evidence, he received $5,000 in May 1971, after helping to get the milk subsidies increased, and another $5,000 in March 1972. It is not known what Connally did with the money, but in November 1973, when the milk-fund investigation spread, he returned the entire amount to Jacobsen, who replaced it in the vault. When Jacobsen was called before the grand jury, he agreed to let the FBI inspect...
Only last month United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim returned from a tour of drought-stricken African states and declared that several of the six nations of the Sahelian strip just beneath the Sahara could literally disappear as a result of the devastation spread by a six-year dry spell. Last week, in landlocked Niger, a military coup toppled the democratic government that President Hamani Diori, 57, had conscientiously administered since he led his people to independence from France in 1960. Though the coup was largely bloodless, three people were reported killed, including Diori's wife, who was shot...
Atop a Manhattan apartment building, General Motors Heir Stewart Mott tends some 200 varieties of vegetables and herbs on a twentieth-of-an-acre penthouse spread that houses six chickens and a working compost heap...
...report to the Cambridge community from the Office of Government and Community Affairs assured the city that although Harvard will "work to protect the tax exemption of educational institutions, it will work with equal energy to see that the courts, legislature and executive branch officials devise ways to spread the burden of these exemptions more fairly...
...fact that several students failed last year's General Examination was seldom even mentioned in the Committee's lengthy deliberation on the Generals; it played no role in the shaping of our proposal. Since our proposal would replace a one-shot exam by a three-part General Examination spread over the entire senior year, the likelihood of failures probably would be reduced. But that is a by-product of our suggestions, not the purpose of them. The Committee's proposal was not designed to keep a handful of students from flunking but to convert a General Examination of dubious value...