Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thanks to three straight Nancy Boutillier right-side jumpers, the Crimson had pulled in front with a 48-43 lead with about five minutes to play. But St. Anselm's then switched to a very spread-out 2-1-2 defense, stop-gapping Boutillier's favorite spot. Desperately in search of other areas of penetration, Harvard failed to break throug the St. Anselm's defense in time...
...advocates of handgun control have made no effort to convince American hunters that they have nothing to fear from the passage of federal legislation designed to curb the spread of handguns. Until such assurances are forthcoming, efforts to limit the availability of handguns will continue to be unsuccessful, and the threat posed by the armed criminal will continue to hang over...
...black. But her instinct for placement, for what shapes to repeat and where to repeat them, and how to break their sequence into daring asymmetries and unexpected detachments of rhythm, was carried out with an unfailing formal sense. This disciplined what might otherwise have been a too lush spread of metaphorical associations-with Russian altar screens, icon covers (for there is something numinous, if not exactly religious, about Nevelson's imagination), tombs and reliquaries...
...exaggeration perhaps. But as computers spread into all facets of life, from controlling the flow of money to manning factories and missile defenses, the potential for troublemaking seems boundless. Already computer thieves, often striking from within, have embezzled millions of dollars. In 1978 a consultant got a Los An geles bank's computer to transfer $10.2 million to his out-of-town account. Only a confederate's tip led to his discovery. To be a computer-age thief, you need nothing more than an inexpensive home computer, a telephone and a few light-fingered skills...
AMERICANS VIEW environmental questions as the dessert course of policy making-- something to deal with once the real problems are out of the way. Hence, when we are busy aiming for military superiority, busy trying to halt the spread of godless Communism through Latin America, busy worrying about four dozen stenographers in Tehran, we have no energy left over to worry about thyroid cancer and the chance of meltdown. Especially if addressing the problems of nuclear power would mean short-run worsening of "real problems" like inflation and dependence on foreign energy supplies. Especially if it would mean less electricity...