Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sources familiar with the original investmentmade in the late 1980s said it had only recentlyturned bad. One blamed the wide-spread troubles ofthe clothing industry along with the hugeadvertising campaign launched by its majorcompetitor in the last few years...
...message's author, President Corwyn D. Hopke '96, said Monday that the Salient has "a normal financial situation" and called allegations to the contrary lies spread by "fired" Treasurer Ross Frisbie...
...training: Fulton requires her charges to E-mail their questions and comments to a list of their classmates, a task that stimulates student participation. Classroom discussions thus quickly spread outside -- in fact, right into cyberspace. Says senior Cara Chotiner: ``I learned so much by reading what people wrote -- things that they didn't have time to say in class.'' As so often happens on electronic message boards, tongue-tied wallflowers blossomed into confident -- and prolific -- E-mail correspondents...
...BUZZ has spread across campus, at least among those in touch with the culinary aspects of Harvard life. Currier House, long disparaged as the lowliest of houses, the Quaddest of the Quad, has recently acquired a frozen yogurt machine, sparking fits of jealousy among low-fat fanatics as well as less cal-conscious fans of soft desserts. Currier residents, like the first family on the block to get a color TV or a '57 Chevy, jump at any opportunity to express their pride. Chris Baker '96 goes so far as to predict that application to Currier house will experience...
...spread of monotheism has culminated in what Francis Fukuyama deems the 'End of History'--the unrivaled dominance of Western-Capitalistic-Monotheistic-Dead-White-Male- Anglo-Saxon-Democratic Society (Historical Studies A-12). Monotheism is incompatible with life in multicultural society, which requires freedom of choice not only in lifestyle, but also in after-lifestyle. What we need to cure the ills of society, therefore, is a viable challenge to the hegemony of traditional thought. In a world where people can choose from fifteen flavors of Snapple, one godjust isn't cutting it anymore...