Word: spreading
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...visit Walsh's Aunt Nan, who was not home. Sitting on the curb outside Aunt Nan's house, the group wrote a fictional country-western song whose lyrics included, "There's shit in my peanut butter." A debate over whether to use a knife or spoon to spread the peanut butter on the peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches they were eating (courtesy of HDS) inspired the group's songwriting effort. "At that point, we had not been sleeping a lot," Philipp said...
...Quincy it's easy. For the dissatisfied at the Quad there is an incentive to transfer just to be nearer to more people. But what if you're just looking for a different environment, more people you're comfortable with in one place? The sophomore class is all spread out. There is no house with a characteristic group that one could point to and say, "I like the kids in that house." Rather there are some here, some there, so transferring would accomplish little for most...
Dangerous chemicals in the atmosphere can spread very rapidly--pollution in Florida can reach the Great Lakes in four days, Colborn said. The effects on wildlife, particularly those living in or near lakes, can be disastrous...
Then, in the mid-'70s, federal funding abruptly slowed and had to be spread among the swollen ranks of professors bearing Ph.D.s earned at Penn and other schools during the boom years. The government, moreover, began distributing its money among a wider range of schools and insisting that institutions pick up more of the costs of research. And inflation began to accelerate. Even before the oil crisis of the late '70s, energy costs began climbing. From 1969 to 1975, Penn's heat and electricity costs rose nearly 300% while its income from investments declined and the growth of funding from...
McCurry also refused to deny wide-spread reports that Ms. Clinton has already been accepted to Harvard's Class of 2001. --Richard M. Burnes...