Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Express) can still build large new businesses from scratch, corporate control has passed increasingly from entrepreneurial proprietors to hired managers. Leading companies are no longer owned by the founders' families. The Rockefellers control less than 5% of Exxon, the parent of the empire John D. Rockefeller built; ownership has spread to 687,000 individuals, mutual funds and pension plans. Such broad ownership gives still more control to managers...
...Declaration of Independence," says Assistant Curator Maxwell Hearn. Over the next eight centuries, Zhou craftsmen became increasingly uninhibited in adding figures to their vessels, as handles or simply as decoration. One massive vase is supported by eight crouching felines and topped by an insouciant and realistic crane with half-spread wings poised as if for takeoff. By the late 3rd century B.C., some artisans were dispensing with the traditional vessel forms entirely, as attested by a container fashioned in the shape of a rhinoceros. Its creator seized on the skin folds around the beast's neck to impose...
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Back home word spread like wildfire. My entire family, from my grandmother to my nine-year-old sister, knows I'm gay, and I am very lucky. They try hard to understand, and what they don't understand they try to accept. But still I am a sexual exile. When I visit Grants Pass I am started at in the street. My parents' friends stand back and regard me as if I were an exhibit. If I go to a party among old friends, I face whispers and pointing fingers. If I tried to make my home there, I would...
Some rule changes have helped assure that the talent that makes such success possible is spread around...