Word: spreading
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Faith. In each case, the illegal profits would be spread among the conspirators. The speculator would pick up an immediate profit of $10,000 on the house (buying for $10,000, selling for $20,000). He would pass some of that along to the lending firm, which also charged high service and closing costs. The appraiser, usually an independent operator who gets as little as $35 a house for his part-time FHA work, would get his bribe, as would the FHA inspectors involved in the scheme. The inspectors are full-time civil service employees...
More difficult to calculate is his real influence. No laws have been passed or policies changed because of his columns. But a number of former incumbents are now retired because of him, and he has spread a not unhealthy apprehension throughout Washington. "He keeps a lot of people honest," says one Navy officer. "I do not know how many tricky decisions I have sat in on and heard someone say: 'And how do you think that will look in a Jack Anderson column next week?' " It is a sobering thought. Had it occurred in the right minds...
Deadline. In 1965 the state passed a Racial Imbalance Act, which decreed that no school could have more than 50% nonwhite students and therefore, by implication, that blacks must be spread out into white schools. The only result was that the number of predominantly black schools kept increasing (from 45 to 65 out of the total of 201). Nearly 80% of the city's black children go there. One reason is that the law failed to declare all-white schools "unbalanced" and thus did not force them to take in blacks; it also permitted parents...
...international language, but attempts to promote one have always failed, probably because no country wants to abandon its traditional tongue. Now a new means of international expression is beginning to catch on, one that carries no threat to national pride: the silent, visible language of graphic symbols. To spread the word about these substitutes for words, Industrial Designer Henry Dreyfuss has just compiled a Symbol Sourcebook (McGraw-Hill, $28.50) of 8,000 universally comprehensible signs...
...disease spread to Nosseck's daughter Debbie, 20, an otherwise typical California girl: "I don't do much. I just swim, watch TV, see my friends." But Debbie plunged $4,000 into a 1958 Triumph 3 she had picked up for $75. "It's got a new engine all done in chrome, new seats and interior, seats are diamond button tucked, the body Mercedes chocolate brown highlighted with walnut lines, multiplex stereo and tape deck inside, roll bar . . ." That is not so unusual as it might seem. Dick Steele, a Rambler dealer in the Valley, sold...