Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part of a recent drive to become one of the nation's leading developers of futuristic materials. Harvard this spring will construct a new multi-million dollar lab to be spread throughout the University...
Each of them was the Marilyn Monroe of her day, so Photographer Richard Avedon was assigned to shoot the real Marilyn posing as Theda Bara, Clara Bow, Marlene Dietrich, Jean Harlow and Lillian Russell for a 1958 spread in LIFE. Later, Avedon mislaid the negatives. Then, last December, as he was unpacking books in the library of his new home at Montauk, N.Y., out plopped the photos. He was not so fond of the Dietrich on second viewing, but the four others still charmed him, and he is issuing them as posters at $100 a set ($200 signed). The pictures...
Those most likely to spread the numbers, says Larry Mixon, the Florida spokesman for Atlanta-based Southern Bell, include college students and military base personnel. Both groups contain large numbers of young people living away from home and making frequent long-distance calls. Once a number is obtained, hundreds of people may end up using it. "Students have been known to take out ads announcing the numbers and the fact that free calls can be made from them," Mixon said. In California stolen numbers bring from $2 to $10 each on the black market...
...liberation theology." Its proponents, who view history in Marxist terms, work to raise the consciousness of the downtrodden in what they see as a class struggle. A fringe element has even flirted with revolutionary violence. Developed in the late 1960s among Latin American Roman Catholics, liberation theology has spread with increasing force throughout the Third World, as well as among leftist Catholic and Protestant circles in Europe and North America...
...related industries. So far, the U.S. decline has been measured mostly in aesthetic and recreational losses. But it is beginning to have an economic cost as well. Sugar Maple Harvester David Marvin, for example, has lost all the maple trees on ten acres of his 700-acre Vermont spread. A reduction in maple trees could spell disaster for the state's $10 million-a-year sugar industry. Other areas could be hit hard as well. Says Joe McClure of the Southern Region Office of the U.S. Forest Service: "Potential losses would be very significant if a long-term decline...