Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That was all it took. Midnight audiences soon formed a Rocky Horror cult that, over the past decade, has spread not only across the country, but across the world...
...cycles to dry clothes instead of one. That aside, is it really necessary to stockpile, survivalist-like, condoms in house basements across campus? The answer is no. Questions of taste and aesthetics aside, a proliferation of prophylactics across campus can only heighten AIDS hysteria while doing little to combat spread of the disease...
...spread of AIDS is concerned, then, condoms only are essential for homosexual men engaging in anal intercourse. Even then, they're no panacea. There's a very good reason why before AIDS hit condom use was on the decline as a birth control method: it wasn't a very good one. At a minimum, many studies have shown, condoms do not prevent pregnancy in one out of 10 couples who rely on them for a year. Some estimates go as high as 20 percent...
Efforts already underway to stymie the sexual spread of AIDS may have rendered moot the need to widely disseminate condoms. Educational programs in the gay community and elsehwere are turning AIDS into less and less of a sexual disease. A recalculation of New York City's AIDS statistics in October found that contrary to prior (and popular) belief, the disease is killing far more I.V. drug users than homosexual and bisexual...
Much of the Manhattan-based firm's growth was accomplished through tactics once branded unseemly. In a field where lawyers traditionally pledged themselves to a partnership for life, Finley, Kumble scooped up stars from the competition and spread nationwide through mergers, gobbling up smaller firms. Disdaining the practice of seniority-based compensation among partners, it showed heavy preference to "rainmakers," the partners most adept at bringing in clients. Some reportedly reaped better than $1 million a year, while others drew a tenth of that. Finley, Kumble called its system a meritocracy, where compensation was based on value to the firm...