Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Originally targeted at the university's population of Oriental students. Park says business has boomed, and he now supplies more than half of his food to Americans. As word of the Oriental delights has spread. Park has been able to expand into eateries in the local area. Nine local stores now sell his brand of Oriental food...
...custody if they cannot pay after their sentences are completed. The counties pick up the tab for those who are found innocent. Jurgens thinks the plan could have national appeal. Says he: "You can't believe the inquiries and requests for information we get. I want it to spread...
Some industry observers are beginning to fear that too many thrifts may be forgetting the painful lessons of the recession. Lenders are once again making longterm, fixed-rate mortgages, for example, to take advantage of the spread between the relatively high interest rates on mortgages and the lower interest that depositors get. Says Saul B. Klaman, president of the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks: "A policy of making and holding such loans in volume amounts to playing Russian roulette with interest rates and the future of the institution...
When it was over, actually over, an impish grin slowly spread across the intense visage of Harry Parker. He kicked his foot in the air and with a wide smile looked heavenward. And chuckled, as if he'd known it all along...
...moguls were old-fashioned family men who made sure that their values got into their pictures. Selznick gracefully catches the small-town quality about the Hollywood of her childhood. Readers with a sociological eye may detect the beginnings of the suburban style (commuters, private clubs, recreational wardrobes) that would spread decades later...