Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...used to be that prudent lobbyists would spread their contributions across both parties, which helps explain why even during their years out of power, the Republicans did at least as well as, and often better than, the incumbent Democrats. But under the G.O.P.'s new, scorched-earth policy, a lobbyist who works both sides of the aisle risks being denounced as the enemy by Republican leaders. "There are liberal Democrats in this town who are trying to destroy the revolution, and I'm not going to be their friend," declares House majority whip Tom Delay. "I'm their enemy...
...latest threat comes from Congress, which is moving toward substantial reductions in the growth of Medicare spending and major cuts in the funding of the National Institutes of Health, two important sources of subsidy for teaching hospitals. But the greatest long-range problem is the relentless spread of health-maintenance organizations (HMOS) and managed-care networks. Teaching hospitals traditionally have charged heavy fees for fairly routine procedures to cover the high costs of training and research. Cost-conscious hmos and insurance networks frequently refuse to pay those prices. Since the teaching hospitals cannot survive by performing liver transplants and brain...
CREATING THE SELF The Damasios suspect that convergence zones-thousands of them, spread through the cortex-do more than just process language. They may also coordinate every other sort of information the brain needs-perception, memory, emotion-to be fully functional. And if that's true, the convergence zones, merging disparate pieces of information into a semblance of a whole, could be responsible for that most elusive of brain phenomena: consciousness, the sense of being in the here...
...media, especially television, haveunwittingly aided in the spread of terrorism,Taylor said...
...According to Walter Kendrick, author of The Secret Museum: Pornography in Modern Culture, the modern concept of pornography was invented in the 19th century by European gentlemen whose main concern was to keep obscene material away from women and the lower classes. Things got out of hand with the spread of literacy and education, which made pornography available to anybody who could read. Now, on the computer networks, anybody with a computer and a modem can not only consume pornography but distribute it as well. On the Internet, anybody can be Bob Guccione...