Word: spread
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...letter, Dershowitz also asserted that Mahoney intentionally spread false rumors about Silverglate in an effort to undermine his case...
Cleary disciple Ronn Tomassoni took the helm of the Crimson this year championing the same idealistic egalitarianism of his old boss. The new coach originally spread his five most talented forwards--seniors Vukonich, Peter Ciavaglia, Ted Donato and John Weisbrod and sophomore Ted Drury--over the top three lines rather than stacking...
...junk in quantity from Milken. The high-flying paper helped two of the firm's 25 funds (the Fund for Income and the High Yield Fund) grow to more than $2.4 billion in assets. At its peak, First Investors commanded an army of 5,000 sales agents spread throughout 285 offices in 49 states -- most of them inexperienced, ill trained and often crammed like cattle into boiler-room offices. The agents memorized scripted pitches that they parroted to customers, usually over the phone. The firm also uses a pyramid-style structure, similar to Amway's, in which agents recruit others...
...method is disarmingly simple. Doctors spread a thin layer of the ointment over the wounded area with a tongue depressor and keep the skin completely covered until it heals. So far, the treatment has been used on 50,000 burn patients in China and on several hundred elsewhere. Xu and colleagues traveled to Thailand last month to help treat victims of a gas explosion in Bangkok. In the U.S. the doctor has won converts at the New Jersey-based National Burn Victim Foundation. Xu, 32, who comes from a family of herbal-medicine specialists, will not reveal the ointment...
...Diego. You get a telephone call at 6 a.m. one Sunday with the news that a black male assistant superintendent has murdered a white female director of program evaluation and committed suicide. The police are at your house by 7 a.m., and the media are about to spread like an oil slick all over this one. What...