Word: spread
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Such safeguards help make the direct-mail flood more selective, but it is likely to continue to spread. In fact, the glut may grow exponentially as relatively cheap technologies increase the numbers of marketers who can tap into the stock of consumer information. Last month Lotus Development Corp. of Cambridge, Mass., introduced a Macintosh-compatible software data base culled from more than 7 million U.S. companies. The $695 package will enable small concerns to enter the business-to-business direct-market mainstream. Another Lotus data base, due early next year, will allow small businesses to tap into the consumer market...
Americans are notoriously impatient with foreign adventures, so perhaps it was just a matter of time before doubts about going to war with Iraq spread from the coffee shops and op-ed pages into the mainstream. In the past few weeks a spattering of antiwar vigils and thinly manned marches has grown in size and fervor. There is still a long way to go before a million people march on Washington -- but the voices of dissent can now be heard, and often from unlikely sources...
...been trying to lead the wave for the entire game and no one will do it," he said. Doaks attributed the lack of enthusiasm to the point spread and what he termed "the Ivy League syndrome...
...along as a sign of weakness. The G.I.s in Saudi Arabia would rather fight now, get it over with and go home than continue to wait in an inhospitable desert. If discontent with Bush's policy ever becomes rife inside the U.S., it could begin with these troops and spread to civilians impatient with the game of feints and threats...
...Perspective From the Inside--Reporters from local newspapers, radio and television stations descended on University Hall Thursday, as word spread about the demonstrators sitting-in there to protest the crisis in Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department. But only The Crimson had staffers inside, one staying with the defiant students into the night...