Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...registered fake names with the ACBL, members say. This enabled him to spread his master points over several accounts, maintain his eligibility for low-level tournaments and receive money for his participation in those compeititions...
...other anticompetitive behavior on the national over-the-counter stock market. The probe follows about a dozen lawsuits filed in July that charge that some of Wall Street's largest brokers, including Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers and Alex Brown, have an unspoken agreement to fatten profits by charging excessive spreads on NASDAQ stocks. The effect: slightly higher prices for consumers when they buy stocks, and slightly lower prices when they sell. NASDAQ denies any price fixing, maintaining that the spread is determined by the forces of supply and demand for each stock. Pending the outcome of the suits...
That insight, applied to AIDS, leads the Chicago team to a conclusion that is sure to get them into trouble. America's AIDS policy, they say, has been largely misdirected. Although AIDS spread quickly among intravenous drug users and homosexuals, the social circles these groups travel in are so rigidly circumscribed that it is unlikely to spread widely in the heterosexual population. Rather than pretend that AIDS affects everyone, they say, the . government would be better advised to concentrate its efforts on those most at risk...
...costs only about a third of what it did two decades ago. The bad news is that an uncooked chicken has become one of the most dangerous items in the American home. At least 60% of U.S. poultry is contaminated with salmonella, camphylobacter or other micro-organisms that spread throughout the birds from slaughter to packaging, a process that has sped up dramatically in the past 20 years. Each year at least 6.5 million and possibly as many as 80 million people get sick from chicken; the precise figure is unknown since most cases are never reported. Whatever that number...
...slaughtering process today further increases the likelihood of cross- contamination as dirty birds mingle with clean ones. If they haven't already become contaminated by the rapid defeathering and evisceration processes, which spread bacteria virtually everywhere, the birds lose almost any chance of emerging clean when thousands at a time bathe in the "chill tank" in order to lower their temperature prior to packing...