Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, Smokey the Bear has been a uniquely successful advertising gimmick to remind Americans about the dangers of forest fires. Now the Federal Government wants to spread the word about environmental pollution, but it is caught up in a bureaucratic battle over what cartoon character should embody the cause...
...Within 24 hours after the wage settlement was announced, most of the big steel producers posted a price hike. After 18 disruptive days, the nationwide rail strike was brought to an end. Though many featherbedding work rules were finally eliminated, the United Transportation Union extracted a 42% pay increase spread out over 42 months...
...dustup soon spread to the U.S. Office of Pipeline Safety in Washington, which dutifully sent an investigator to Collinsville. Though the agent found nothing amiss. Baker remains unconvinced. He has now challenged pipeline companies' right to burrow on private property, a move that could have national repercussions for the pipeline industry. If the local hearings go against him, Baker says he will appeal all the way to the Supreme Court. His obstinacy has not come cheap; legal costs already have reached nearly $10,000; a Supreme Court appeal could run $3,000 to $5,000 more. But Baker intends...
Consider L.A.'s notorious sprawl. Banham finds the city did not spread like a cancer to its present 455 sq. mi. Its precise shape was predetermined decades ago by the Pacific Electric Railway's network of rapid-transit tracks. Though critics frequently scoff that such sprawl makes L.A. seem like 100 communities in search of a city, Banham sees instead the excitement of diversity. The jumble of freeways that has replaced the old P.E. railway has maintained the diversity. Far from being destroyers of the urban texture, Banham says, the superhighways "seem to have fixed Los Angeles...
Passionate Scholarship. Though spread around the country, the China scholars get together frequently at formal meetings like a session on Chinese ideology and politics that is taking place this week in Santa Fe. They share the special excitement of working on an intellectual frontier where even undergraduate research projects can excavate significant fresh information-although the significance of some such details may well escape the layman. When one Columbia professor could not respond to a student's question about the most prominent purge victim of the Cultural Revolution, the student found the answer and tacked up a card...