Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economists call a "stop-go"-or in this case, go-stop-fiscal program. In a fragile economy like the present one, every jolt caused by new stops or starts is an added risk. Nixon might have been better advised, election year or not, to even out new expenditures and spread them over a longer period. Indeed he may yet be forced to do just that. The sheer red tape of federal bookkeeping, check writing and the like may make it virtually impossible to push spending as high and as fast as Nixon wants. In that case Candidate Nixon could claim...
...became known as the "Fog Speech." Three days after it was delivered, a professor at the Ein Shams University in suburban Heliopolis sarcastically lectured at a student meeting about "fog over Egypt." Hundreds of Ein Shams' 38,000 students rapidly took part in teach-ins. Before long, protests spread across town to Cairo University, where vocal students criticized the government's waste, political inaction and willingness to let American oil companies operate in Egypt even as the U.S. delivers additional Phantom jets to Israel...
...Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith has called "the happiest Africans in the world"-went on a rampage. For three consecutive nights more than 8,000 angry Africans rioted in Gwelo, Rhodesia's fourth largest city, burning buildings and hurling stones at white-owned cars. The trouble spread to Salisbury's Harare township and to Bulawayo, Fort Victoria and Umtali, where eight blacks were killed by police gunfire. By week's end 18 persons were dead (including two white helicopter crewmen) and at least 80 wounded...
...your lack of eligibility troubles you, there is something you can do. Help the poor devil in Thayer North who receives the lowest number. Make a donation to our lottery. If you'd like to spread a little friendship and consolation around, drop by Thayer North sometime before Feb. 2 (the date of the lottery). Leave your gift, be it money or merely reassuring words, with Paul in room 46, Ted in room 45, or Rusty in room 49 (all on the first floor). We only hope that the thoughtful women of this university will rally around...
Some of the most vehement parental critics in California banded together in an organization called the Parents' Committee to Free Our Children from the Children of God-a movement that has since spread to other parts of the country. The parents' group charges, among other things, that the Children stoop to kidnaping, hypnotizing and even drugging to keep youngsters in the sect. The outcry has driven many of the Children from California; Ted Patrick, a San Diego aide to Governor Ronald Reagan, has accused them of trying to "destroy the United States...