Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like mushrooms after a spring rain, nuclear plants in recent years have sprouted all over the globe. The reason is clear: as the price of oil becomes ruinously expensive, and oil's availability more uncertain, most nations must take steps to acquire alternate sources of energy. But the spread of this potent technology has also led several countries to try to acquire nuclear weapons on their own. Persuading them not to do this has become a desperate diplomatic crusade of the Carter Administration. Washington's opposition to expanding the nuclear club is often at odds with other vital...
...experienced perhaps the greatest growth during the past decade. The bold experiments in modern dances during the '60s have come to fruition in the '70s; audiences regularly pack theaters to see such well-known troupes as Alvin Ailey, Merce Cunningham, and Pilobilus. And the trend toward innovation has so spread that now companies in back-country towns like Northampson, Mass. perform works once restricted to New York's Greenwich Village. Fifteen years ago dance in Boston meant the Boston Ballet, which recently staged Tchaikovsky's "Sleeping Beauty"; today the number of dance and ballet companies in the area...
Idealistic as Harvard's guidelines may be they attest to faculty members' concern about the CIA's activities in the university. One hopes their concern will spread...
...security by keeping the A-bomb "secret" under wraps. Then three undergraduates (one of them a Harvard student who managed only a B- in Physics 55) independently designed workable A-bombs without access to classified information, exploding the government's logic of using information control to contain the spread of nuclear weapons. Unphased, the government simply classified the student's designs...
...been going on for four months when suddenly last week Fairbanks mysteriously showed up on campus. Eddie Crowder, the university's athletic director, refused to say what was going on. Colorado Governor Richard Lamm was furious. "The public is being treated like mushrooms-kept in the dark and spread with manure," he fumed. Two days later, the university's regents revealed that Colorado had acquired Fairbanks because of an extraordinary out-of-court settlement: the indefatigable Flatirons had agreed to pay $200,000 to the Patriots in return for dropping the suit...