Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most departments know this in part and offer writing-intensive tutorials in sophomore year. Yet the College makes little effort to spread the good word to many large classes. For example, one of the largest courses at Harvard, Literature and Arts C-37 (The Bible and Its Interpreters), doesn't require any written work. Is it any wonder then that most people blow off the reading until the midterm or reading period? Clearly, students of all stripes are attracted to guts. But the price we pay is a lost opportunity to gain and retain something valuable--knowledge...
...Saturday was by far our best offensive performance," Harvard Coach Scott Anderson said. "The scoring was well spread. We got some good effort from many people...
...news, documentaries and special- interest programming, those offerings will expand. If video on demand is a huge money-maker, that is what will grow. If video bulletin boards - or teleconferencing, or interactive Yellow Pages, or electronic town meetings - are hot, those services too will thrive and spread...
...term coined by Russian Assistant Education Minister Elena Lenskaya. "Somehow," says Lenskaya, whose waiting list of Russians eager to study in the U.S. tops 200,000, "our students must become ambassadors of our country rather than just guests in yours. Then maybe more will want to return home to spread the word. But above all," she observes, "more than just a few must come to see the magic of America...
...bounty of new home entertainment. "There isn't an inexhaustible supply of talent out there waiting to fill 500 channels," warns Howard Stringer, CBS Broadcast Group president. "The first thing that comes to mind is what Alvin Toffler called the Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets...