Word: spreading
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...puns took on a life of their own. Consider Cal Ipsobeat's confession that as an un-hip Jamaican, he thought dreadlocks (which he sports) was a lousy bagel spread. Or a crew member's observation that the gold C3PO knockoff Mike Rosoft (Geoff Oxnard '99) is Excel-lent. Or Sally Vader's encouragement to Hugh Jegg to "Just keep your sunny side up and maybe this will all go over easy!" Not to mention the endless hard-boiled detective references and Star Wars ripoffs...
Germany's unemployment rate reached a post-war high when it recently rose above 12 percent. Incidents of xenophobic violence have increased steadily since capitalism spread into East Germany...
Republicans want to keep the heat on Democrats without having the investigation spread to their own fund-raising practices. To their immense discomfort, the FBI has been investigating whether the Chinese government funneled money to both parties in last year's congressional races. Senator Fred Thompson, the Tennessee Republican who will be chairman of the hearings, promises he will also look into congressional fund raising. But Republicans, who let lobbyists draft part of environmental legislation in the last Congress, want his questions to stop at the White House...
...also easy to imagine the technology being misused, and as news from Roslin spread, apocalyptic scenarios proliferated. Journalists wrote seriously about the possibility of virgin births, resurrecting the dead and women giving birth to themselves. On the front page of the New York Times, a cell biologist from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, named Ursula Goodenough quipped that if cloning were perfected, "there'd be no need...
...corections on the Web should help to spread the news of the revised results, according to Morse...