Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ripples from the impact of an oil-price break would quickly spread past Mexico's moneylenders, who could face substantial losses. Mexico is a major U.S. trading partner, for example, and thus a substantial source of American jobs. Commerce Department officials figure that some 150,000 U.S. workers were laid off in 1982 because of a drop in U.S. exports to Mexico, which fell 34% for the year as oil prices tumbled...
...Donovan's 16,000 agents were killed in action. "He gave the sons of the power elite a mission," Brown concludes. "He sent them, as the church had sent missionaries, and the Kremlin its Comintern apparatchiks, to every corner of the globe, to fight the Axis enemy and spread the American gospel of the Four Freedoms." Donovan also taught a still naive America that it was sometimes necessary to use questionable means to preserve freedom. Perhaps for that reason there have been no such heroes since...
...very same day the Court handed down its decision. Washington's Joint Center for Political Studies released a study showing that racial segregation has increased sharply in public schools over the past 15 years. That study, commissioned by a Congressional committee, also found that school districts with wide-spread court-ordered busing plans had made the most progress toward integration. Voluntary desegregation efforts, which the Reagan Administration advocates, had proved largely ineffective...
Store executives had made clear in previous weeks that the department store's death would not be accompanied by an advance announcement or ceremony. Even late in the afternoon on January 17, when rumors of Hudson's final day had spread, store officials were cagey. When a Detroit reporter asked Hudson's chairman P. Gerald Mills if the store was in fact in its final hours, he said. "Are we? I still see customers...
Unfortunately, the nuggets are spread through an expanse of correspondence that sometimes becomes tedious. Winnick had access to all letters in MacLeish's possession (except those to and from his wife Ada) and he lists two pages of additional sources. No doubt he wanted to make a thorough and scholarly compilation, but the nearly 400 letters probably could have been cut by about a third without losing much. Nevertheless, it is well worth skimming through the housekeeping details, travel plans, and mundane dealings with editors to get to the plentiful meat...