Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hundred collected stories by Colette make for a sumptuous display, rather like a table spread with the fruit and wine she celebrated in her books: "Late-ripening cherries, rosy peaches, thin-skinned Marseilles figs, misty hothouse grapes and champagne shuddering in carafes of heavy crystal...
President Dwight D. Eisenhower took office in 1953 determined to be more aggressive in checking the spread of Communism. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles summed up this approach when he told LIFE magazine in 1956 that "if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost." Still Eisenhower and Dulles backed away when Soviet tanks rumbled into Budapest later that year to crush the Hungarian uprising. Eisenhower contributed another idea when he invoked the domino theory in 1954 to justify U.S. economic aid to South Viet Nam. The notion that the fall of one nation to Communist...
Such tales have spread fast among the country's 1.4 million Indians, most of whom are poor, many destitute. At least 50 of the 167 reservation tribes, from the 8,000 Cherokees in North Carolina to the 1,200 Yaquis in Arizona, are trying to cash in on the quirky boom. In two weeks a new 1,600-seat hall will open on the Sandia Pueblo reservation in New Mexico, and the Baronas plan to build a $2.5 million arena with room for 2,000. "Bingo is benefiting our people," says Arthur Welmas, the Cabazons' tribal chairman...
...Last year the maximum was 13 weeks' worth. Even employees who have been with the company only six months are eligible for up to three weeks' extra wages. "Everybody from the janitor to the chairman receives them," says Drexel Chairman Robert Linton. "We want to spread the wealth around...
...booth in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station to a 24-hour computerized phone operation that will sell close to 3 million tickets this year, many via its toll-free 800 number. In addition to booking Broadway and off-Broadway shows, sports and other live events, Chargit is trying to spread ticket-by-phone fever to movies. It has already offered phone reservations to such films as Return of the Jedi and Sophie's Choice...