Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rumors began to spread that the new man in the Kremlin had been hospitalized. Some Westerners suggested that Andropov was suffering from nephritis, a chronic kidney ailment. Others hinted of heart trouble and possibly the flu, a common illness this time of year in Moscow. There was of course no official confirmation that Andropov had been either ill or in the hospital. Stories that he might be suffering from some life-threatening malady were quickly scotched when Andropov reappeared last Friday at a meeting with Nicaraguan Leader Daniel Ortega, and when he gave Pravda an interview that vigorously criticized President...
...responsibility system has spread to nearly every sector of society, including industry, culture and the arts, public health and the military. Peking's Capital Iron and Steel Complex now gives bonuses to its 70,000 workers when they meet specific requirements. By 1985, according to the government, 72,000 hotels, restaurants, bathhouses and barbershops will switch to the new system. The businesses will pay taxes to the government. Anything earned above the taxes will be shared among employees or reinvested...
...loans used to buy cars, improve homes and make credit-card purchases. All such debt totaled a record $342 billion in January. Commercial banks, which made nearly 45% of those loans, were by far the largest single lender. The failure of bank rates to fall much has widened the spread between what banks pay for some key funds and what they extract from small customers (see chart). It has also raised cries that the lenders are gouging consumers to make up for losses on loans to big borrowers the banks had no business courting in the first place. Declares...
...many of its flights just as the peak Easter season was getting under way. But the cost was enormous. Eastern had offered members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which represents 13,500 mechanics, baggage handlers and other ground personnel at the airline, a 25% raise spread over two years, starting with a 6% hike in April. The union rejected that package. Instead it wound up with a 32% raise by 1984, including an immediate pay hike of 21% made retroactive to January. The base wage of Eastern's mechanics will rise from $13.15 per hour...
...monotony, the walls are built of concrete, brick, granite, metal veneer, opaque glass and mirrors. They cover up department stores and shopping malls, offices and civic buildings, convention centers and hotels. Designed out of fear-fear of the untidy hustle and bustle of city streets and "undesirables"-the walls spread fear. By eliminating the hospitable jumble of shop fronts, restaurant entrances and newsstands, the walls deaden the very city life their builders claim to "revitalize...