Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is wide spread abuse of sick leave by teachers. About 20% of the system's 4,200 teachers took more than the 15 annual sick days provided by the union contract. The president of the teachers' union described the absenteeism problem as "teensy," explaining that continued job stress and budget-based layoffs have demoralized teachers. But on any given day, 55 teachers are absent, and about 1,300 students get little or no instruction. Estimated cost of the absenteeism: $10 million a year...
...awesome responsibility of sorting out the conflicting testimony and bewildering law fell on five men and seven women. A janitor, a cafeteria worker, a garage attendant, all but one black, they were not a jury of Hinckley's peers except in the legal sense. For 24 hours spread over four days they vacillated until, almost as an act of despair, they reached a decision that left them uneasy and bitter about their experience...
...June 20, 1782, Congress approved the Great Seal of the United States. Its principal feature is the majestic bald eagle, wings spread, clutching an olive branch in its right talons, a cluster of 13 arrows (for the original states) in its left. Americans were not the first to adopt eagles as symbols of independence, courage and power: European cave men decorated their walls with drawings of eagles, and rulers from the Roman Caesars to Napoleon chose the bird as their emblem. But no people took to eagles like the Americans to Old Baldie, which has adorned everything from 19th century...
Otherwise, followers are simply urged to spread and keep the faith. Last Wednesday, Activist Dr. Benjamin Spock spoke in Washington. "Don't ever say that you sent a letter, or went to a demonstration, and nothing happened. Keep it up," he counseled. "It will happen." Perhaps it will. But so far, apart from an unimpeachable opposition to nuclear war, the movement is far from determining just what "it" ought to be. -By Kurt Andersen...
...speech John Paul did not repeat his well-known view that any use of artificial birth control by married couples is sinful. Instead he spoke of "the spread of a contraceptive . . . mentality," referring to the unwillingness of couples to have children...