Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economic ocean zones established by the Law of the Sea Conference are stupid. Cousteau said, because ocean currents will spread the damage inflicted on any particular zone into other countries' zones, leading to international conflicts...
...Dawkins writes, there is this civilization 200 light years away. They want to spread their culture to distant worlds. So they assemble everything they want to say into one huge unbroken message, and then broadcast it out into space. The message is picked up by this huge computer on Earth which proceeds to take over the world and restructure society to accord with the outer-space radio message...
Trading in options, currently the hottest speculative arena, will be another of Williams' concerns. Options are the right to buy or sell stocks at a specified price within a set period of time. Currently they are traded mainly on the Chicago Board Options Exchange, but they have also spread to the American Exchange and are headed for the N.Y.S.E. The SEC has approved a pilot program in Philadelphia, where options and the stocks that they are based on are traded on the same exchange. The SEC under Williams' direction will have to decide how much more expansion...
...house heat escapes through poorly fitting windows, too thin walls and faulty flues. Schlesinger plans a mandatory program that will force homeowners to insulate whether they want to or not. Enforcement will be through state commissions and local utilities. One proposal: order public utilities to insulate homes and spread out the cost through higher billing to all customers. For added energy saving in homes, utilities will be required to install remote-control switches on central heating and air-conditioning units and water heaters. The heaters and air conditioners can then be turned off for 15 to 20 minutes each hour...
...solvent, was heavily contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), a class of highly toxic chemicals that have been implicated in birth defects and nervous disorders. Environmental officials were notified; they located the contaminated solvent in Cedar Falls and Fort Dodge, Iowa, before it had been used. Had the solvent been spread on Iowa's roads, it could have found its way into animals, food and water supplies. The result, said officials, would have been an ecological catastrophe that could have endangered the health-and perhaps lives-of thousands of lowans...