When Madame Mao controlled the company she prohibited foreign ballet terms: the attitude became "the stance of the heron", the arabesque became "spreading your wings in the welcome breeze".
At some point, our mission became "spreading democracy" at the tip of a bayonet.
We'd all become spread out over about 400m.
Marine organisms tend to be distributed along climatic lines, and many terrestrial groups, such as migratory birds, are so mobile that they have become spread across two or more major biogeographic areas.
Citing a recent pilot scheme within the Co-op grocery chain, which is labelling foods clearly for consumers and backed up by fair trade policies, Lady Miller said such good practice would become spread nationally under the Liberal Democrats.
There's Brad Garlinghouse, the executive whose infamous 2006 peanut butter memo argued that Yahoo! had become spread too thin.
"The more data breaches that occur, the more our personal lives become spread on the dark market, the less valuable identity information is for authenticating you," he says.
The company's approximately 500 employees had become spread among three buildings, separated by a busy highway.
If the vertical shear is too strong, the storm cannot rise to its full potential and its energy becomes spread out over too large of an area for the storm to strengthen.
Distributions are described as power law-like, instead of following a true power law, because at very high levels, the power law does not apply and the probability becomes spread out into a "fat tail".
