Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dues in service to the city. If one has more money than one needs, a handsome percentage of the surplus is expected to be given first to God, second to Dallas. Money Titans Clint Murchison Sr. and Jr. used to say, "Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell...
When Sears does well, the ripples spread throughout the economy. As merchant to the millions, the company is the grand marshal of the American material parade. Sears sells 37% of America's replacement car batteries, 22% of its paint, 39% of its clothes dryers, almost half of its portable flush toilets. It reaches its customers not only through its more than 800 retail stores but through 2,389 catalog-sales centers in localities that range in size from Los Angeles to Arkville, N.Y. (pop. 600), and Muleshoe, Texas (pop. 4,842). The largest Sears stores are in Troy...
More than 31,000 annuals, marigolds and petunias (the Olympic flower budget is $250,000), have been trucked in, along with several sycamores. Picnickers piped through the gates each day by a flutist watch the seamanship from blankets spread out on the grass. The civility of the place must be affecting, because though the French and their wounded oar finished last in the heat, the final was broadened to accommodate fairness and one extra craft. "From a sport point of view," the announcement said, it was the only thing to do. What a nice phrase...
Most of the major events at Montreal were concentrated within a 25-to 30-sq.-mi. area, but Los Angeles has 221 events spread over 4,500 sq. mi., from the northernmost (canoeing and rowing) near Santa Barbara to the southernmost (the endurance test of the three-day equestrian event) at San Diego, 190 miles away. Says Barnathan: "If the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City was a 1 in order of difficulty and Montreal in 1976 was an 8, then this one is about...
Mondale's two opponents, Jackson and Gary Hart, saw the dissension over Lance as a last chance to pry away Mondale delegates and block a first-ballot victory. Hart's aides happily spread the word that some 50 delegates who had been unpledged or in Mondale's camp had expressed interest in voting for Hart out of disgust over the Lance affair. Mondale's retreat, however, took much of the steam out of the fledgling revolt...