Word: spread
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...show's subtitle, "Picasso, Leger, De Chirico and the New Classicism 1910-1930," only hints at the size of the field it covers. Its broad subject is the classical revival that spread through South European art -- mainly French, Italian and Spanish -- in the wake of World War I and formed a kind of counterweight to the fragmentation of cubism and feverish alienation of dada, expressionism and surrealism...
...bailout seems to keep on rising uncontrollably. Since the President signed the cleanup law amid loud fanfare exactly one year ago, the price tag has grown from a White House projection of $166 billion over 10 years to what some experts now fear could be a $1 trillion bill spread over 30 years as the government shuts down nearly half the entire thrift industry. The White House's own current forecast projects a cleanup cost of at least $500 billion over the next 40 years. That includes $160 billion to be used mainly to pay insured depositors at shuttered thrifts...
...involvement in the management of the New York Yankees." At Yankee Stadium, where the last-place club that Steinbrenner has assembled (a Mercenaries Row of no-talent free agents, high-priced castoffs and rookies) was playing the Detroit Tigers, the crowd rose in a standing ovation when the news spread that the familiar chant "the Boss must go" would actually become reality...
...players who attached them to their ice skates in the off-season. In 1987 Rollerblade decided to market the skates as a fitness product for exercise buffs. Rollerblades were slimmed down and painted a fashionable neon. The company also launched a secret marketing strategy. Realizing that trends start and spread quickly in California, the Midwestern company gave away hundreds of Rollerblades to skate-rental shops along the beach in Los Angeles. Says Sundet slyly: "So what if the Californians think they invented...
Even if the decree is heeded, however -- and that is a big if -- Gorbachev will still face a major problem: the rot that has infected the 4.5 million- strong Soviet armed forces. It has spread beyond nationalist resentment into the very nature and role of the army itself. Estonia and Lithuania have passed legislation allowing draft-age boys to opt out of military service, and Georgia and Russia may soon follow suit. In this year's spring call-up, the number of outright draft dodgers has grown to an estimated 20,000. In Armenia a mere 7% of draftable boys...