Word: spreading
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...initial downturn didn't surprise the Fed or the Treasury too much. For the better part of two years, Greenspan and Rubin had been quietly fretting about the narrowing "spread"--the difference in interest rates--between U.S. bonds and emerging-market bonds. By 1996 banks were lending money to countries such as Malaysia at interest rates just a few percentage points above what the U.S. Treasuries commanded. The implication: Malaysia was not a much riskier bet than the U.S. This was nonsense, and the committee knew some correction was in order...
...online dating fever has spread, openingother options for lovelorn consumers. On Monday,the Harvard Computer Society (HCS) unveiled itsonline crutch for dating in the 90s, DataMatch...
According to Rosenthal, flu symptoms spread more rapidly in the close quarters of dormitories...
However, Rosenthal cautioned, the shot will not entirely prevent the flu's spread; good hygiene is also important to preventing the spread...
Lotze's Web page, previously available at enb.hcs.harvard.edu/~lotze, was getting approximately 35,000 hits an hour since Monday. Today, Lotze, who is also a Crimson editor, is being interviewed on KKAR-FM of Omaha, Neb. about the magic his Web page has spread...