Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition, Dorm Crew has worked to spread itsname through campus with a stepped-up posteringand door-dropping effort...
...driving force behind Xu's personal commitment to philanthropy has been his desire to spread Chinese culture, according to the Xinhua news agency...
...been raised too high? Some teachers and parents complain that the tests are too exhaustive--and exhausting--for young students. The Massachusetts test clocked in at 16 hours, spread over several weeks. Tina Yalen, an eighth-grade civics teacher, gave her opinion of the Virginia test: "Some of it looked like Trivial Pursuit to me." More worrisome is how a 10-year-old will react if his or her result is branded with a scarlet F. Says Harvard's Reville: "An overload of negative feedback runs the risk that students are going to shut down and not make an effort...
...there was no 11th-hour reprieve. Her tree was among the first of 470 maples, ashes, elms and horse chestnuts to be cut down, chipped up and burned in an effort to stop the spread of a new and unwelcome Chinese import: the Asian long-horned beetle. It's the first infestation since the pest was originally identified in the U.S. in 1996, when 2,400 trees in Brooklyn and Amityville, N.Y., were lost. But the fast-moving critters could be anywhere. "It's quite possible that other places have them," says Joe McCarthy, Chicago's senior forester, "and just...
...clip the extension under real hair. Women can keep the clips indefinitely and attach them on their own after a quick lesson from the hairdresser. "It's there if you want to create another dimension or have a little fun," says celebrity stylist John Sahag, who styled an extensions spread for the March issue of Glamour and put Jennifer Aniston in them for an upcoming Rolling Stone cover...