Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most thoughtful advocates of making informal education intellectually demanding. By now she has trained some 100 teachers who are using informal techniques with about 2,700 kindergarten-through-fourth-graders in New York City public schools; she also has a Ford Foundation grant to train ten consultants to spread her methods. She has put her studies of similar British experiments into an expert new book, The English Infant School and Informal Education (Prentice-Hall...
...illusion of American supremacy. But the U.S. paid a high price for that illusion in loss of markets to its overseas competitors, because American goods became artificially expensive in relation to foreign products. The world paid a high price too: the outflow of overvalued dollars to foreign countries helped spread inflation around the globe and robbed world finance of stability...
...common forms of malignancy, breast cancer is one of the most frightening. It is now killing 32,000 American women a year, and by the time a woman or her doctor is able to notice a lump under the skin, the disease has often spread to other parts of the body. Thermography, which measures the heat radiated by tumorous tissue, and conventional X rays can help in early detection. Now a new refinement of an old technique promises to allow the spotting and treatment of breast cancer when it is no larger than a pencil point...
...twentieth the time required for conventional X rays; more important, they are far easier to read and interpret. In a series of 1,535 examinations performed during the past year, Martin uncovered 54 cancers. Thirteen of the cancers had been previously unsuspected, and all were detected before they had spread beyond the original site. Because of the promising results in Houston, hospitals in Chicago, Los Angeles and Detroit have ordered the new equipment and will soon be using xeroradiography to get an early warning of breast cancer...
...look, which Amtrak eventually plans to spread nationwide, is part of a campaign to make train travel comfortable and interesting again. Some earlier and more substantive improvements: easier to read timetables, and an experimental fare cut between New York and Boston...