Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard officials said earler this week that the University made the sale at this time to take advantage of current low interest rates and to spread out payment for construction projects now totalling $195 million...
...committee hoped that the marble and glass facility, with its soaring nine-story atrium, 16-foot ceilings, and state-of-the art office facilities, would attract 50 Senators and their staffs, while the other 50 would spread out in the older buildings. Who would not want a more spacious, more modern office, given the choice...
...spread of protectionism makes it all the more essential for the Pacific countries to develop trade within their own region. While Japan has been a successful exporter with an increasingly affluent population, its government has not yet fully opened the gates to imports from other Asian nations. China, with its immense population, has isolated itself for decades and only recently begun to look outward. "If both Japan and China were to adapt themselves to greater imports from their neighbors," concluded Krause, "it would generate a dynamic trade expansion that would allow Asia to far outdistance the rest of the world...
...they affectionately call him, is still the man who has become inextricably linked with the word Solidarity. For three days, hundreds of supporters kept a vigil beneath the second-story window of his apartment block on the outskirts of Gdansk. Suddenly, late in the evening, an excited murmur spread through the milling crowd. Before the convoy of four cars could pull to a stop, it was mobbed by surging onlookers who struck up the chant, "Leszek, Leszek." At the center of the commotion was a familiar figure with a drooping mustache. Looking noticeably more rotund, Walesa, 39, had come home...
...Angeles is to Mudd what Paterson, N.J. was to William Carlos Williams his sole source of inspiration, the backdrop against which time passes and the measure of change. Mudd even defines his own art by describing his hometown--he writes that poetry is a rambling jazz, spread out as lights are over the freeways...