Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believe it! Instead of giving us a cover story about Elvis Presley, a man who made the American dream a reality, you gave us an eight-page spread about an American nightmare...
...Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity take a more optimistic view of the problems of world hunger. In her bestselling Diet for a Small Planet, Frances Moore Lappe took the position that Americans must learn to sacrifice as individuals, to reduce their consumption levels in an effort to spread thin resources around. In Food First, however, she and her co-author Joseph Collins examine the root causes of world hunger. Their conclusions are both startling and persuasive...
...meeting could hardly have clashed more jarringly with its purpose. At the U.N.'s invitation, the representatives had gathered in the Kenyan capital last week to discuss and devise ways of containing what an increasing number of experts regard as a major environmental danger: the creeping, seemingly relentless spread of the earth's deserts...
...Chicago and an attempt to bus about 900 students from overcrowded black schools to under-crowded white ones. An estimated 6,000 local residents plan to boycott the first day of school this week as black transfer students are bused into a dozen schools in the section. When rumors spread that police might develop "blue flu" that day-calling in sick-so that they would not have to protect black children, Jackson hinted that black men might have to ride the buses carrying the transfers...
Since the New York Times two months ago announced that movie ads it deemed unfit to print would be restricted to 1-in., unillustrated notices of time and place, the urge to purge has spread. The Seattle Times, Sacramento Bee, Fresno Bee, San Diego Union, Long Beach Independent Press-Telegram, and various lesser papers have either banned sex-film display ads outright or placed so many restrictions on them that advertisers have taken their trade elsewhere...