Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...system to private firms. Several companies, including Lockheed Martin and IBM, are eager to bid on what is expected to be a $2 billion multi-year contract. The unions fear not only the loss of thousands of government jobs in Texas but also the possibility that the idea could spread to other states. The day after the union snubbed the gala last week, the Clinton Administration disappointed state officials by declaring what it called a compromise: private companies could begin computerizing the paperwork, but the larger task of determining who is eligible for various forms of assistance should be left...
...their desks like the flowers I have given them. This is an in-class writing assignment: write a page on what the flower smells like. It is an exercise in stream of consciousness for my students at Long Island University's Southampton College. The school is small and unadorned, spread out on a rise overlooking a bay; it is about to come in to flowers of its own in the reluctant spring thaw...
...sexes to the fact that men can reproduce in near perpetuity, marrying and remarrying, having second and third families, with rarely a raised eyebrow about their right to do so. For men who have a late child, there's a nudge and a wink from your pals, a spread in People if you're Clint Eastwood, and a bump in the polls if you're Strom Thurmond. A trophy kid is so common among the '90s tycoons, you'd think it was a corporate perk, like stock options. Meanwhile, a woman's peak childbearing years coincide precisely with her peak...
Rumors have spread this past week that Chelsea's decision was based upon the relative lack of media attention which she received at each school. Though yesterday's coverage of the affair in the San Francisco Chronicle clearly does not provide any evidence that media attention is less invasive on the other coast--they published an editorial listing the "Top ten reasons Chelsea Clinton chose Stanford," which included "#3. On advice of 'Uncle' Webster Hubbell, refused to discuss anything with Princeton, Yale and Harvard interviewers but forgot about Stanford" and "#4. Sick of those wimpy Gore kids hanging around...
...defense, Harvard pressed the UNH transition, forcing the Wildcats into quite a few turnovers as well. However, the Crimson usually had more players nearer to the ball, as the Wildcats spread the field to protect against easy goals, which allowed Harvard to scrounge up most of the ground balls...