Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meet is structured to allow maximum participation by each swimmer. The 18 events are spread over the meet's three days. Each swimmer may participate in three individual races, as well as all three of the meet's relays...
...Gulag for a BBC broadcast to the U.S.S.R. Last week he met with his Paris publisher to arrange for publication of the whole seven-part work, of which only two sections have appeared in the West. At the same time, the Kremlin was showing increasing alarm at the spread of Gulag in the Soviet Union via Western shortwave radio broadcasts, smuggled copies and unofficial samizdat (self-published) underground circulation...
...French Ministry of Industry and Scientific Development has named him to take over the Lip watch factory in Besançon, which has become a symbol of revolution to French labor and industry and an embarrassment to the Pompidou government. Last spring, after Lip went bankrupt and rumors spread that some layoffs were planned, workers seized the plant and ran it for 68 days, selling watches at a 40% discount. The government ended that experiment by sending police to close the plant in August, but has been looking ever since for someone to get production going again...
Some of the roots of Cuban racism can be found in the influence of American business contact in the late 19th century, Boorstein said. He said that Americans visiting Cuba expected special treatment as whites, and spread racist attitudes...
...spread-out offense like that-in theory-discourages defenders from peeling off the player they are covering to double-team Walton. The moment that happens, a U.C.L.A. player is left wide open. Another play designed to produce an open man stacks Meyers and Wilkes together to the right of the basket. This bunches the defense, setting up a "breakout" for Wilkes or Meyers, who can spring down the foul lane and take a pass from Curtis or Walton to score on a layup. Other favorite U.C.L.A. plays bring Walton out to a "high-post" position (near the foul line), opening...