Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summer tourism season swings into full gear after the Memorial Day weekend, U.S. hoteliers, theme-park operators, tour organizers and car-rental agencies are bracing for a flood of revenue, certain that the visitors will bring plenty of money to spread around. A Government survey done in 1986, when the dollar was 25% stronger, showed that an overseas traveler spent an average of $1,358 ($340 on gifts and souvenirs alone) while in the U.S. This year visitors are expected to inject some $10.7 billion into the U.S. economy. Partly because of this infusion, revenues for the U.S. hotel...
...clothing distributor in the Bronx had found it cheaper to turn rejects over to a trucker deadheading back to North Carolina than to dump the stuff in New York. Enterprising Wheeler-Dealer Lee ("Red") Wright spread the bales over a one-acre field. Last week Wright was collecting a $5 parking fee, then permitting ragpickers to take away whatever they could carry. There were a few drawbacks: no dressing rooms, no alterations, and the "as is" nature of the merchandise, a condition likely to worsen as time and weather take their toll. But never mind. Bargain hunters jamming local roads...
...heroin from getting ( it. But they do permit the sellers to charge sky-high prices as a kind of risk premium. The high prices, in turn, produce enormous profits that irresistibly lure vicious gangs, who are taking over large areas of cities. The gangs employ armies of pushers who spread the very plague the drug laws are supposed to combat. Says Milton Friedman, guru of free-market economists and a Nobel prizewinner: "The harm that is done by drugs is predominantly caused by the fact that they are illegal. You would not have had the crack epidemic...
ERIC CLAPTON: CROSSROADS (Polydor). Twenty-five years of mean guitar spread over 73 (count 'em) cuts. There're genius, passion and elegance here, as well as a fair bit of fluff...
Just a few days earlier, Choreographer Debbie Allen had been counseling the young performers of Carrie about how to handle sudden stardom. But as the disheartening word spread backstage, the ensemble members realized that they might have to learn instead to handle sudden unemployment. Last week, less than 72 hours after it opened as the Broadway season's most opulent American musical, Carrie closed. Stephen King's 1974 novel about a tormented teenager with psychic powers became a best seller, then a multiple Oscar nominee as a 1976 movie. But onstage it set records of a different sort: losing more...