Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three Law School students, all Caribbean natives, addressed the crowd, and all three cited the military intervention as a dangerous precedent which could spread to Central America...
General Education is usually placed early in the undergraduate years. I would like to spread it through the four-year sequence, making sure that non-majors investigate an area close to the natural sciences and technology, and also an area close to the humanities and creative arts. I would like to propose in addition another kind of program, which would be extracurricular, but required, as sports used to be in the old days. The program would be a set of opportunities to acquire some marketable skill or craft. The occupational future appears cloudy at best, often frightening. Even the children...
...civil rights exist independently of whether he's selling drugs or writing Shakespeare themes. As his particular case shows, the only difference between Jeffrey Engerud, student and citizen of the United States and Jeffrey Engerud, criminal defendent and drug dealer, are a couple of well-placed and well-spread rumors and one anonymous call to the cops...
...American West, most any plot of land big enough to graze a goat or nurture an apple tree is called a ranch. But by any standards, William Clark's 880-acre spread in California's San Luis Obispo County qualifies. His rolling land has few trees and is more of a barley than a cattle operation. It is surrounded by much larger ranches, which protect the judge's property from encroachment by commercial developers. His air and water are relatively clean...
EVERYONE HAS HEARD the sayings. "You shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket" and "Cover all the bases just to be sure." The logic is sell-evident. Yet, for the sale of convenience, individuals often accumulate valuable items in one place, or fail to spread their options as widely as possible. National governments often go this easy route as well, and the Reagan Administration is no exception...