Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...argue the issue at hand on its own merits. But playing these games' can turn one's head to mush. F'rinstance: the United States has more than 10,000 warheads pointed at the Soviet Union, ready to end the world as we know it to prevent the spread of Communism (not surprisingly, few conservatives include the armaggedon factor when playing moral equivalence games with South Africa). To be consistent, should we also turn our nuclear arsenal and our massive military might against P.W. Botha, Johannesburg, and Sun City? Let's ask Derek...
...royalty, the English economist and journalist Walter Bagehot wrote, "Its mystery is its life. We must not let in daylight upon magic." Charles and Diana have allowed the shutters to be opened just a crack. To spread them any further would spoil the illusion. To be modern, yet keep the mystique--that is the trick. It is a trick that Charles and Diana have gracefully mastered...
...plea for a bailout puts the Administration in a difficult situation. Such action would violate Reagan's free-market philosophy and could open the door to other federal-aid requests. But farmers have plenty of political clout, and troubles in farm credit could spread to other parts of the financial system. In congressional testimony last week, Agriculture Under Secretary Frank Naylor stopped short of proposing, as some White House advisers have suggested to the President, that the Treasury extend a $3 billion line of credit to the FCS. Instead, Naylor said that the system should use the surplus funds...
Lewis Dunn. assistant director of the Bureau of Nuclear and Weapons Control, said that the world is sorely in need of innovative ideas to control the spread of nuclear weapons, but that proliferation is not the United States's most important issue at this time...
...plan to use the stereo to spread God's word, they said, by recording "Christian rock" albums and giving them away to any interested recipients. Ryder said God told him to do this...