Word: spread
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...begun to question the usefulness of IMF interventions in general. On the one hand, were the IMF not to intervene in financial crises, foreign creditors who lose their money might be unable to pay their debts to lenders elsewhere--a cycle of defaulting loans would allow financial crises to spread uncontrollably, bringing down banks in Boston as well as Bangkok. On the other hand, however, there is a danger that the possibility of bailouts could create a moral hazard and encourage speculators to float high-risk loans, secure in their knowledge that the IMF will be there should the loans...
...only are schools forced to sacrifice themselves to MCAS preparation, the actual test-taking itself is an absurdly long 16-hour process, and when the testing schedule is spread out, the MCAS can disrupt school schedules for as long as three weeks...
Peering into a museum display case in Arlington, Va., Elizabeth James, 15, looks in wonderment at the artifacts spread out before her. The display re-creates the window of a "head shop" from the 1970s. What catches her attention isn't the array of marijuana pipes, rolling papers and bongs; like most American high schoolers nowadays, she's a veteran of drug-education classes from fifth grade onward and has seen it all before, in movies and in classroom programs. No, what interests her are the psychedelic posters pinned to the wall, great swirling designs in Day-Glo colors proclaiming...
...buzz on Groove Armada has begun to spread with the recent American release of that same album. Indeed, a bowdlerized version of "I See You Baby" can be heard in a current Mitsubishi commercial. And if their live performance was anything to go by, this is a group that will be heard: on TV, in movies, in living rooms and definitely in clubs. Even without Elton's help.0
There are many reasons Napster has spread like dandelions, not the least of which is that it's very easy to use. Then there's also the matter of scoring free music downloads encoded in the MP3 file format, but let's focus on Napster's simplicity. Download the software, install it, press Connect and you're ready to start searching. If you want to share the MP3 files on your hard drive with others, you can. But if you don't, that...