Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Speed up payroll-tax boosts. The leading idea is to put into effect by 1984 increases that are now scheduled to be spread out through 1990. Estimated revenue increase: $135 billion over the next seven years...
NASA is now conducting an experiment to see if photographs can help to trace from space the spread of toxic pollutants in San Francisco...
...society will be struggling for their share of shrinking national resources in the post-Brezhnev era. The Soviet leadership under Andropov is expected to maintain Soviet military spending at its present high levels, estimated to be 12% to 14% of the G.N.P. What is left will have to be spread more thinly. Says Robert Legvold, an expert on East-West problems at the Council on Foreign Relations: "The Soviet Union simply does not have the resources to invest in all the necessary sectors. The leadership is going to have to make tough decisions on allocations of capital, raw materials...
University officials said yesterday they remain unsure what caused the irritations, which first appeared in the basement and spread through the left half of the building during the late morning and early afternoon on Thursday...
...added that Hackey-Sack is popular along parts of the West Coast, where he learned to play three years ago. Together with roommate Geordie D. Wilson, Lerdau has actively spread the faith here since September...