Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Frequent ice cream bashes raised student awareness of the problem by reminding them that they should conserve energy. Posting charts in dining halls and publishing results in The Crimson also spread the gospel, but did not attract nearly the interest of Rain Forest Crunch and Cherry Garcia ice cream...
Stanford surprised no one on Saturday when it covered a 45-point spread to pummel Cornell, 56-6, in Palo Alto, California. The game, to honor the 125th anniversary of Cornell and the 100th of Stanford, should never have happened...
...anachronistic ring, as though the very subject of the nation's spy agency caused Bush to slip back into the vocabulary of the cold war. That would be natural enough. After all, no American institution is more closely identified with the 40-year struggle to stop the spread of communism and Soviet influence around the world. Whether American agents were restoring the Shah of Iran to the Peacock Throne in the '50s, organizing an invasion of Cuba in the '60s, or applying the Reagan Doctrine in Angola, Nicaragua and Afghanistan in the '80s, their real target was the Soviet Union...
...interest rates fall, consumers are looking with puzzlement and anger at the carrying charges on their credit-card balances. Why have those rates refused to budge? The spread between what banks pay to borrow money and the interest rates they charge on credit cards has grown to nearly 14 percentage points, the widest gap since the deregulation of interest rates in 1982. The chasm has attracted both public scorn and scrutiny. Declares Stephen Brobeck, executive director of the Consumer Federation of America: "Consumers are being gouged by the banks...
...Donovan's death in 1959, Hoover continued to tell people, falsely, that his old foe had succumbed to syphilis contracted from prostitutes during World War II orgies. Eleanor Roosevelt made Hoover's hate list for having accused him of trying to build an American gestapo. In revenge, the director spread rumors of her alleged love affairs with both men and women. Hoover persuaded comedian W.C. Fields to give him a set of obscene drawings of the President's wife, which he delighted in showing friends...