Word: spreading
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...friendly France is getting 5% less oil than last year because the Arabs have not only slapped embargoes on some nations but cut overall production as well. Britain, which is also on the Arabs' privileged list, is receiving 15% less oil than in 1972. Sunday driving bans have spread across the Continent from Copenhagen to Calabria. The Italian government last week adopted emergency measures that forbid the sale of gasoline in jerry cans (to discourage widespread hoarding), put curfews on stores, restaurants, theaters and even television stations, and limit drivers on the autostrade to a rather un-Italian...
Peter S. McKinney, administrative dean of GSAS, said the revised plan is a compromise between financial pressures and the demands of graduate students. "There simply isn't enough money," he said. "I can only hope students will see this [revised] plan as an attempt to spread what we have around as evenly as possible...
...whose party say started it all, and who is counting on the trip to help repair some of the damage to East-West détente caused by the Middle East war. "The President gave me about two dozen presidential tie clips and ladies' pins, with instructions to spread them around when I thought it appropriate," said Connors. Brezhnev will get more than a tie clip. "I've ordered two engraved Colt revolvers or for the General Secretary," Connors added. "Brezhnev is quite a western buff...
...start working together at once. We are going to break traditional molds." In the next years, the two worked in close collaboration. Every few weeks, Miró traveled from his house in Majorca to Royo's studio, a converted flour mill in Tarragona, outside Barcelona. There Royo would spread his newest tapestries on the floor. Miró studied each, with all its intricate twists, sworls, braids and tailings. Then he might splash a design across the rhythmic shapes, or snatch up some scrap of cloth to provide an accent or an assertion, using material from among the detritus lying...
...enforce. Thus he may be forced to use the authority that Congress is likely to give him to impose gasoline rationing, which he greatly wants to avoid. Rationing would be far more disruptive and politically sensitive now than it was during World War II. Today rambling suburbs have spread out of urban areas, and millions of Americans drive to work by car. Still, John Love, the White House Energy Adviser, predicts that gasoline rationing will be necessary by next spring no matter what happens in the Middle East...