Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard's inconsistency keeps under mining its intensity. More than half the players are freshmen, and Coach Kathleen Delaney Smith is forced to spread out the few experienced players among the line...
Last Thursday's announcement, made in Andropov's name on the 98th day since his disappearance from public view on Aug. 18, essentially formalized earlier threats. The Soviets were breaking off, at least for a while, the tenuous two-year dialogue between the superpowers aimed at limiting the spread of intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe. The actual walkout from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) talks had occurred the previous day at a 25-minute meeting in Geneva between Chief Soviet Arms Negotiator Yuli Kvitsinsky and his U.S. counterpart, Paul Nitze. Kvitsinsky had put the mildest face possible...
Nonetheless, Brennan uncovered 1 some Sears strengths. Since the chain's buyers specialize in single ., lines such as shirts or pajamas rather than whole departments, when Sears decided to change its merchandise mix its buyers knew the hot sellers and top values. Sears' geographical spread also allowed it to test different merchandise displays around the country. The experiments demonstrated that imaginative presentation can boost sales of even the most mundane items. A test store in Indianapolis that remodeled its displays, for example, sold 44% more small appliances and 45% more light bulbs...
...most undergraduate Houses students live among talented and diverse neighbors, and occasionally a genuine celebrity walks through the courtyard or eats in the dining hall. Recently Edward Asner, Leonard Bernstein '39, and Barbara Tuchman '58 have spent time living among undergraduates, occupying one of several lavish guest suites spread throughout the Houses...
...once, it seemed to be Moscow that was wavering. After a week of mixed diplomatic signals, Soviet arms negotiators indicated that they would attend at least one more meeting this week of the faltering Geneva arms talks that are intended to limit the spread of the intermediate-range missiles. The Kremlin's decision appeared to be a tactical one. The Soviets were waiting for the results of a vote in the West German Bundestag that is expected to give final approval to deployment of controversial Pershing II nuclear ballistic missiles on West German soil before...