As S&P points out, the spread of home ownership had distributed the UK's wealth more evenly.
Then, as the organisation points out, "the spread of resistance is further exacerbated by travel and population movement, making it easier for drug-resistant forms of a disease to spread to more people, and from one location to another".
And also fitting that, as Mr. Parker points out, the six-floor, 7,500-square-foot spread has "an open design combined with many private nooks and crannies where one can feel cozy, or slip away to be alone".
Jesper Koll, chief economist at Merrill Lynch in Tokyo, points out that the spread between salaries in Japan has begun to rise over the past few years, though it is still much lower than in Britain or the United States.
Mr Culverhouse points out that the spread over Treasury bonds is 264 basis points, 115 points wider than it was in the summer of 2007.
Professor Altman pointed out that the spread between the yields of junk bonds and Treasuries had hit 3.7 percent as of Friday, a level that had been reached only once before in the last 33 years.
Industry bosses are quick to point out that the spread of mobile phones is bringing labourers, farmers and fishermen into the economic mainstream.
More dramatic, as both Beaty and Hajdu point out, was the spread of television.
Goerlich pointed out the reality that wide-spread adoption is often much slower that we anticipate - for example, RFID took 20 years to catch on widely - and even more so with physical assets.
He pointed out the window at the city spread below him like a lunch tray, making certain that the camera caught a favorable angle on his face.
However, according to Mr Haley, Welchi has caused almost as many problems as Blaster itself, by overwhelming networks with "pings"—signals that checked for the presence of other computers.Fortunately, as Nicholas Weaver of the University of California, Berkeley has pointed out, the algorithms that worms use to spread themselves are not particularly efficient.
