Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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None of the cuts are official to the point of showing up in written long-term contracts. Instead, the discounting is being done on the relatively volatile spot market, which accounts for a small part of overall sales. So far, the discounts have not spread to the most popular grade of oil, light crude, which is used for gasoline. Limited though they are, the price reductions have badly hurt Egypt, which needs all the money that it can get from sales of its heavy-grade oil. Venezuela, also a big producer of heavy oil, is attempting to buck the trend...
...being the original source of the outbreak. It put the blame on Lebanon, where Syrian soldiers on peace-keeping duty in devastated Beirut were said to have picked up the disease and carried it back to Damascus and their native villages. That may be true, but the rapid spread of the disease did not speak well for Syrian medicine and sanitation. Indeed, President Assad rebuked his health authorities for their poor performance. They responded by closing swimming pools, public beaches, fruit juice and ice cream parlors, and many restaurants. Proprietors of the restaurants that remained open were warned that...
With a whirring of gears, a set of spools turns, unrolling a sheet of printing paper against the negative. The technicians meanwhile spread the patented Polaroid chemical reagent-a viscous mixture they call "goo"-onto both sheets simultaneously. After passing between a pair of rollers, the sandwich of photographic papers is raised, by rope and pulley, toward the ceiling. Then the sandwich is lowered to the floor, and the negative is lifted off, revealing the huge full-color print. "It's nothing but a small Polaroid process made larger," says Technician Peter Bass...
...anonymous authors are scarcely in a class with Russia's Alexander Solzhenitsyn. But their writings are evidence that some Chinese are culturally starved for something more nourishing than party propaganda. Although few dare openly challenge the mindless conformity imposed by the Communist regime, the spread of irreverent songs and jokes indicates that the Chinese sense of humor is irrepressible. One favorite device is to sing love lyrics, sotto voce, to the tune of solemn hymns to Mao Tse-tung...
...cheapest shots at Lance was a report, spread across five front-page columns of the Chicago Tribune, that Lance had poured "millions" of his bank's funds into Continental Illinois National Bank in hopes of securing a personal loan; buried deep in the story was the fact that he finally got the loan from another Chicago bank, and not from Continental. Not to be outdone, the rival Sun-Times tried to make something of the fact that John Moore, who helped the Carter Administration vet potential appointees, including Lance, for possible conflicts of interest, happened...