Word: spread
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...anyone for a donation for a Class Gift. I know that you have better things to do with your money than give it to Harvard; with me as Class Marshal you won't even have to defend the morality as your cheapness by linking Harvard's investments with the spread of acne in the Third World...
...Duke. "His appeal can be reproduced wherever a white middle class is close to a black high-crime area. Duke practices what I think of as cocaine politics. Like cocaine, his appeal is easily transported, easily concealed and highly addictive." There are rumblings around the nation that show the spread has already begun. Though Lee Atwater was quick to dissociate the national party from Duke, many Republicans feel that opposition to affirmative action and set-asides is a stand too rewarding to be renounced...
...aerospace planners call it "brochuremanship," the tendency of contractors to make wild claims about the effectiveness of proposed weapons systems. Now this liar's art has spread beyond Washington. A journalist back from the U.S.S.R. tells of Soviet military technicians who pitched a costly radar missile-tracking system to the Kremlin. On April 28, when the U.S. was scheduled to launch a space shuttle, the technicians triumphantly declared that the lift-off had been detected and tracked. Several hours later, NASA announced that the takeoff had been postponed...
Mathers estimates that at one time there were between 125 and 150 homestead families on his 50,000-acre spread, each trying to live with a few cows and sheep and harboring vain hopes that crops that sprout so effortlessly in Illinois would do the same in semiarid Montana, which gets less than 15 in. of rain annually. They are all gone now, tiny homes fallen in, schoolhouses vanished, everything blown away by the same winds that lofted the sandy soil as far as the Atlantic seaboard in the 1930s. A few of the homestead titles are held by descendants...
Just as surprising is the majority's failure even to mention the severe crime epidemic that has spread through the streets of Boston and its surrounding communities. How would the candidates ensure the safety of residents too afraid to walk the streets? Which candidate has proposed a more coherent plan to put criminals behind bars? Would either candidate do what New York Governor Mario Cuomo has done and call for the hiring of more police officers? Who knows? The staff doesn't seem to care...