Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since the openings in universities are limited, the students say industry offers them a secure job after graduation. Students in Ausubel's, Ptashne's, and Gilbert's labs say that there are both "pluses and minuses" in the new industry, which has just recently spread to the area of agricultural research...
...that the second nuclear war is likely to take place between lesser nuclear powers outside Europe, but that such a war is perhaps not as likely as we might imagine. We haven't talked about proliferation, but one of the great fears that people have about the spread of nuclear weapons into states that don't possess them at the moment is that the conditions that have made for the nuclear peace between the United States and the Soviet Union will not [occur] elsewhere. Perhaps the most intriguing question of all is what will be the world's reaction...
...West Virginia. There's garbage strewn all over." And the people who are rich, mainly mine operators and speculators, "do not wear their money well." One summer Klingensmith worked on a construction crew building big private homes. Minutes after the plumbing was installed in one, the rumor spread that the toilet seat was made of gold. "They wear diamond rings next to their leisure suits, which are maybe purple or nice green...
...blind approach, spent much of the spring going from House to House for dinner, talking to groups of students. One of his main questions was how much students felt it was worth straining to adhere to the ideal. How much more, he asked, could the available money be spread (in the form of work-study and loans rather than grants) before the pressure of a work-study job outweighed the benefits of being here...
...resourceful residents of Swidnik took a walk during the 5 o'clock news broadcast. Frustrated officials finally lifted the curfew, and after a month of newswalks, Swidnik's citizens decided they had made their point and stayed home-but not before their unique piece of resistance had spread to Olsztyn, Lublin, Bialystok, even Warsaw. Explained a Swidnik news-walker: "Every contact between the people and the authorities can be used to show dissatisfaction with martial law and everyone...