Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first few years of his regime, Perón rode high. He continued to cultivate the workers, granting them more pay raises and awarding them unprecedented social security and vacation benefits. At the same time, Evita became the wife-mother of the poor, "the little Madonna" who spread millions of dollars in largesse among them from a loosely audited cache of government funds and forced "donations." The Evita cult grew alongside that of Perón himself. When Evita died of cancer at the age of 33 in 1952, there was an unsuccessful campaign to get the Vatican to proclaim...
...jury will also explore reports that a high-ranking federal official tipped the oilmen off to the 1971 price freeze in time for the companies to get their prices frozen at a high rather than a low level. The word was supposedly passed to an oil executive, who quickly spread it throughout the industry. Some executives of independent oil companies have told investigators that they got phone calls from competitors and other industry sources advising them that the freeze was coming and urging them to get their prices...
...Moment Preserved. That, really, is what this collection of 700 great pictures from LIFE is all about. Readers, leafers-through, photography fans born and unborn, future historians, unabashed lovers of LIFE, nearly everybody's children, in fact nearly everybody, can sample one vast, extraordinary, accordion-pleated Miscellany spread...
...training and recruiting program which responded more flexibly to the military's need for junior officers, which permitted future personnel to devote more time to rigorous academic study as undergraduates, and which did not cost the taxpayers thousands of dollars for small, decentralized, inefficient ROTC units spread over hundreds of campuses, should be a better alternative from the armed services' point of view...
Fresh from a round of golf and good living at Frank Sinatra's spread in Palm Springs, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew returned to Washington last week to deal with the charges of corruption that have threatened his entire political future. After meeting with his attorneys for most of a day, the Vice President sent a letter to George Beall, the U.S. Attorney in Baltimore, offering to let the prosecutor examine Agnew's personal financial records for the past 6'A years "at any time you may desire." Furthermore, said Agnew, he would be happy to submit...