Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rather than focusing attention on the ACSR, saving protests for the spring to respond to ACSR votes, protest should be a year-long effort by the divestiture movement. Students should lobby the University's most influential body-the alumni. The focus of the divestiture movement must spread to encompass students and faculty at the graduate schools. Radcliffe students should protest that school's investment policy in companies that do business in South Africa, in hope that Radcliffe can set an example for Harvard...
...cathartic upset in New Hampshire seemed to liberate voters last week in nearby Maine (Hart over Mondale, 50% to 44%) and neighboring Vermont (Hart, 70% to 20%). That infectious sense of political possibility caught on and spread west and to the Deep South, where the contenders, variously giddy and panicked, prepared for this week's contests.* "The situation has changed totally," said Joan Bowen, Hart's coordinator in Alabama, where virtually no organization existed last month. "With a victory under his belt, people say, 'Hey, I like him!' They're coming out of the woodwork...
...their early 40s. But in the Vermont primary, Caddell pointed out, some surveys showed Hart outpolling former Vice President Walter Mondale more than 2 to 1 among the 45-to-59 age group and seniors over 60. Other breakdowns similarly showed that Hart's appeal has spread well beyond its original youthful core...
...wheel has turned. Caught in a squeeze between overproduction of heroin and eroding markets overseas, Asians are now selling to Asians, with devastating effect. Though official statistics do not exist, the worst estimates suggest that Thailand alone may have more addicts than the U.S. Nowhere has the scourge spread more swiftly than in Pakistan, where the number of heroin users has exploded from virtually none before 1980 to an estimated 200,000 by the end of last year. Malaysian police report that as much as 70% of all crime in the nation is now related to drugs. More than...
...time they cut a couple of singles for a local label called Steeltown in 1968, word of the young prodigies with a front man who could sing and move like Jackie Wilson had started to spread as far as Detroit and Motown. Calls were placed; connections were made. In November 1969, Motown released the first Jackson 5 single, I Want You Back, with a propulsive vocal by Michael, 11. The record reached No. 1 in twelve weeks...