Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...various communities in Lebanon, what could have possessed the Israelis to allow the Christian forces to enter the refugee camps? Had they conspired with the militiamen to root out the last vestiges of the P.L.O. and Muslim leftist military opposition in West Beirut? Had their ranks been spread too thin to keep the executioners away from their victims? Or had they simply been careless about giving the bloodthirsty militiamen a chance to run amuck? Whatever the answer, the government of Menachem Begin had a lot of explaining to do. It may eventually have a lot to regret...
...curriculum, such as it was, virtually disintegrated during the campus upheavals of the 1960s, when millions of students demanded and won the right to get academic credit for studying whatever they pleased. There were courses in soap opera and witchcraft. Even more fundamental, and even more damaging, was the spread of the "egalitarian" notion that everybody was entitled to a college degree, and that it was undemocratic to base that degree on any differentiations of intellect or learning. "The idea that cosmetology is just as important as physics is still with us but is being challenged," says Curtis...
Groups such as MADD and Students Against Driving Drunk (SADD)--a high school group begun in Massachusetts--have started to spread educational programs. SADD members sign contracts with their parents about calling home for drives--no questions asked. But there are only so many people these small groups can hope to reach...
About 30 Coalition members wearing yellow arm bands saying "security" were spread throughout the crowd, joining a large number of Cambridge and Harvard police officers...
...television, briefer reports on the arts, law, religion, science and other "soft news," plus lots of sports. Gannett promises to provide a play-by-play of each run scored in every major league baseball game. To keep sojourners abreast of events back home, the paper has a two-page spread of news items from each of the 50 states, and a similar state-by-state summary of college, school and amateur sports. The clean makeup features sharply reproduced color photos, charts and a vivid, detailed national weather...