Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fire officials said that a gasoline leak from a taxi cab being repaired in the shop sparked the fire. The gas ignited and spread, but the five mechanics were able to evacuate unharmed...
...break following 40 hours of non-stop bargaining. The walkout by 2,700 workers at the two plants has idled some 150,000 GM workers and forced the world's largest automaker to shut down 25 of its 29 North American assembly plants. The effect of the strike has spread beyond GM, as the company has halted steel and engine shipments. Caterpillar Inc., which makes engines for GM, said it will temporarily lay off 115 workers. President Clinton, meanwhile, told a Louisiana radio station that it was too early to resort to federal mediation to settle the strike. The main...
McDougal was an old hand at this game; he had even helped his old boss, Senator Fulbright, make some money by cutting him in on a land deal in 1974. Fulbright was thrilled, and word soon spread among the Senator's circle of McDougal's financial acumen. Later McDougal spotted a small plot near Little Rock, and, almost offhand, mentioned it one day to Clinton. "You ought to buy this, Bill," McDougal said. Clinton knew of McDougal's success with Fulbright and was interested. He was still paying off student loans he'd taken to finish Yale Law School...
...then, on Feb. 19, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that Hillary, in a fierce argument with Bill, had smashed a lamp in the family living quarters. The story spread like wildfire, embellished with the claim that Hillary had actually thrown the lamp at Bill in a raging argument. Hillary assumed the story came from the White House security detail, confirming her fears about their loyalty, and was upset that no one from the Secret Service came forward to deny it. The story soon appeared in Newsweek, and Hillary and Bill vented some of their anger on Foster and Watkins...
...better watch itself. The passive-aggressive way of (not) doing things, perfected by clerks of the U.S. Postal Service, has spread like a drug-resistant strain of civic anger. A real insecurity and confused apprehension that something has gone basically wrong mutate by stages into free-floating sullen grievance and ballistic self-pity, a boll-weevil mentality of busy stealth, the victim/employee/citizen as secret guerrilla. Alienation...