Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dita claims that she moved too often to finish high school. Her mother, an amateur concert singer who loved to travel ("She didn't care much for me"), would take her out of school on trips whenever Army transportation looked tempting. Her father bought a 300-acre spread, Rising Wolf Ranch, in Montana, and Dita spent summers there as a child. "Dad thought nothing of giving me a gun and a fishing rod and telling me to go off for a couple of weeks. I learned to be very independent." He retired from the Army in grand style...
...angry mood is well expressed by Billy Hull, a squat, beefy man who heads the Loyalist Association of Workers. "If we're sold down the drain," Hull said recently, "there wouldn't be civil war, there would be armed rebellion, and it could spread to Britain itself. We're not ready now, but, like our forefathers, it won't be long before we are." He paused, took a pull on his pint of Guinness, and added: "Bloody awful to be talking like this...
...Easterns, the lightweights set a new record for margin of victory with a whopping 14-second spread. Rowing against a fierce headwind, the Crimson performance easily bested the old record of ten seconds for margin of victory...
Administration claims that the re-channelling of this money will leave support levels for graduate students constant is patently false, even on the basis of their own figures. When the same amount (or a smaller one) of money is spread out over a greatly increased number of recipients, the average level of support per recipient cannot help but decline. Many departments are faced with a reduction in allotments for graduate student and teaching fellow support--some with drastic cut-backs of over 50 per cent. Teaching fellows, with the abolition of the STS, will be faced with effective salary cuts...
...plan, the Government would allow $1 billion of this to be spent on mass transit in 1974, $1.85 billion in fiscal 1975 and $2.25 billion in subsequent years. Chances of winning congressional approval this year appear dim, but it is important that the Nixon Administration is striving to spread the money around, and it seems inevitable that just that will be done some time in the future...