Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Playing their home schedule at B.U.'s vacuum-packed Walter Brown Arena, the Crimson finished 7-18-1 overall and 1-8-1 in the Ivies, both Harvard records for ineptitude. Bad play was spread evenly among an offense that couldn't produce (especially on the power play), a defense that kept the puck in its own zone, and inconsistent goaltending...
...Humphrey explains that education is spread across the government for several reasons, including the insurance of diverse funding sources. "If you're going to reorganize HEW," Humphrey asks, "why take the smallest part away?" On Capitol Hill, there is feeling that if HEW is dismantled, a Department of Education would become a mouthpiece for the NEA while a Department of Health would become a loudspeaker for the American Medical Association. Both Albert Shanker, president of the AFT, and Bok, despite their diverging motivations, suggest an internal reorganization of the massive HEW machinery along the lines of the Pentagon's five...
...Besides learning about a patient's current ailment, the snoops may pick up potentially damaging items from the past, such as a record of bouts with venereal disease, drug addiction or alcoholism, or a family history of mental illness or cancer. Easily copied by duplicating machine and then spread, this sensitive information may eventually appear on the desks of credit and loan officers, personnel chiefs or even college admissions boards...
...Americans have been flirting reluctantly with a complicated and grudging awareness about themselves and their orgies of fossil burning. But they are still in the quibbling stage, in what psychologists call a period of "defensive avoidance." The gas lines that started in California and have begun to spread across the country like a rumor are still open to confusing interpretations: Are they a temporary inconvenience or ominous intimations of the future? The last gas crisis, in 1973-74, subsided soon enough. Perhaps this one will as well? According to the Gallup poll, more than three-quarters of Americans still believe...
...pretty much take life as it is given to us by others. For example, destroy local mass transit systems, promote suburban sprawl ... permit central cities to deteriorate into jungles and stimulate the automotive industry by every advertising trick known to man, and what do you get? A spread-out network of settlement, work, distribution and consumption which has become absolutely dependent on the automobile for its existence." Burnham will have none of the "pundits who blame the American people for doing what their leaders and their corporate giants had told them to do, decade after decade...