Word: spreading
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...superpowers since 1946, when the United States armed the Koumintang in China against its internal communist enemies. Periodically, as with the Korean war, local quarrels threaten to escalate to world wars. Today Soviet and American military planners share the view that once the superpowers become involved war will spread, and they see the explosive politics around the Persian Gulf as the most likely origin of the next great...
...chaos that the Sandinista economic measures have spread is one reason for the shortages that have allowed sardonic Nicaraguans to dub Managua "the capital of queues." So far as the Sandinistas are concerned, the problem is simply being called "distribution," meaning a chronic short supply of operating buses and trucks in the country due to a lack of imported spare parts. The government blames that shortage on the U.S. for leading a campaign to cut off Nicaragua's international credit at a time when the country is staggering beneath an estimated $3 billion in foreign debt...
...debts, no employees, no phones, no plan"?actually locked out of its first office after a credit check?the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee has burgeoned in four years to something greater than phenomenal. The L.A.O.O.C. plan: Don't build any sports palaces, refurbish the Memorial Coliseum. Spread the Olympic Village lightly over U.S.C., U.C.L.A. and U.C., Santa Barbara. Dot the megalopolis with stirring events. "We didn't have the three top sources of income available to all prior Olympic Games," Ueberroth (pronounced you-ber-roth) says. "The No. 1 income source has been government. We are putting...
Harvard is lucky, because it is one of the only universities in the nation where the thrill of victory is spread so thoroughly beyond the elite ranks of varsity athletics. This year the thrill is being spread even further. For Lowell, 1981 was the Year of the Point, 1982, was the Year of the Win, and this year, 1983, is the Year of the Woman. Playing for the Bellboys this season is Alex(andra) Coutler, the first female to participate in House football...
Faculty officials have also said that, over the next five to 10 years, Harvard will move to decentralize computer facilities. This would move a great part of the computer use from the main Science Center system to personal computers spread throughout the campus...