Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Plimpton's 14-page spread all complete fiction--was intended as a spool, it has unexpectedly prompted people across the nation to call both Sports Illustrated and the Mets asking for more information on the "pitching...
...this new competition, say Wall Street analysts, helped drive down the prices of the networks' stocks until by last year, they were selling for 40% to 50% below what many experts thought was their true worth. Suddenly the broadcast companies started to look like bargains again, and the feeling spread that any mover and shaker with enough money and backing could stage an unfriendly takeover...
...with a clear set of goals: shrinking the role of Government in the economy and reducing the deficit by slashing nonmilitary spending; simplifying but not --horrors!--raising taxes; stabilizing relations with the Soviets through arms reductions, but without giving up the MX or his Star Wars plan; preventing the spread of Communism, especially in Central America. His re- election sweep has bolstered his already high confidence that the public will support...
There is one major difference between the elusive Andropov and Gorbachev. While KGB disinformers spread tantalizing tales about Andropov's taste for Scotch, Benny Goodman and Western pulp fiction, the former chief of the Soviet intelligence services remained the shadowy figure he had always been. Andropov, throughout his life, never traveled to the West and was seen only from afar at Kremlin ceremonies. Gorbachev, in contrast, is responsible for creating his own image abroad. He has what one Washington Kremlinologist calls "a real sense of public relations...
...pretty fragile vehicle, and in part because what is most touching about We Are the World is not simply the choir, but the sense of communion. Musicians from rival factions of the business are seen putting aside differences of style and temperament and coming together to share and spread a little decency. "Many of them had just been together at the American Music Awards," says Belafonte, "but that was competition, narcissistic and self- possessed. The session really purified them." Says Kenny Rogers: "There is no question that this is the single most important thing I have ever done." And Quincy...