Word: spread
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...Monitors ordered to "spread girls around" in classrooms...
...realized in college that I probably could do what I wanted to do within business, and I'm really glad I did," he says. "Corning is a wonderful company with extraordinary people. Corning [the town] is a rural community, you have a little elbow room to spread out. I like that...
McAuliffe's success lies partly in the fact that he can tap the treasuries of both labor and industry, the far ends of the Democratic empire. While one of his mentors, former House whip Tony Coehlo, got Washington lobbies to spread their largesse to probusiness Democrats in the 1980s, young McAuliffe hit the road to find new donors in law firms, mid-size businesses and real estate brokerages. His recruits were people who were reliable voters but were sometimes excluded from the established social register--Jews, Irishmen and Asians. By 1993, McAuliffe had boosted ninefold the D.N.C.'s club...
Manufacturers at the time flaunted the legality of the drug, promoting it as lacking the hallucinatory effects of LSD and the addictive properties of coke and heroin. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration was caught by surprise by the new drug not long after it had been embarrassed by the spread of crack. The administration quickly used new discretionary powers to outlaw MDMA, pointing to the private labs and club use as evidence of abuse. dea officials also cited rudimentary studies showing that ecstasy users had vomited and experienced blood-pressure fluctuations...
...sort of a New Age hippie thing. Very cool, very mellow. No problems," says an already nostalgic twentysomething local. "Then it just started to grow. People from the university would show up. Jocks would be there. It was, like, everybody was doing it." As word of the raves spread, police began to hear that a new drug scene was sweeping the city...