Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...upon the crowd. SASC said the chill in University attitudes toward divestment inspired this protest strategy, though a small faction of SASC members declines to participate due to the fact that all of the snow is white. Barbara Bush nevertheless gives an impassioned Commencement address about "A Thousand Point Spread" in the next Harvard-Yale Game, due to her husband's refusal to set foot in "that liberal boutique...
...became apparent that this year's Super Bowl would be better than those of the last few years. When the teams left the field at halftime tied, 3-3, the only people groaning were those who had placed bets on the high side of the 47-point over-under spread. The rest of us kept watching, even if most of us forgot to bring our 3-D glasses for the, as always, puerile halftime show...
...progress has not been spread equally over various groups in the population. Smoking among blacks and blue-collar workers is higher than average. Level of education is the best predictor of tobacco use: the more years of schooling people have, the less likely they are to smoke...
...wars of national liberation" and Leonid Brezhnev's assertion of the right to use force to protect the "gains" of socialism. In an interview with TIME, Anatoli Gromyko, director of Moscow's Institute of African Studies admits, "We should not export revolution. The idea that a socialist revolution would spread around the world was a romantic view. The change in our thinking came because we were engulfed in our own problems...
...news of the arrests spread, oil-union workers staged strikes and demonstrations in several parts of the country. Gasoline supplies ran out in Mexico City and other areas as panicky motorists filled their tanks. By week's end, however, strikers had returned to their jobs and gas stations were operating normally...