• Launched in 1997, AIM became widespread once it was made available to non-subscribers in 1998.

    CNN: The good ol' days of AOL chat rooms

  • Income-redistribution programs that became widespread in the 1960s and 1970s had a much smaller influence than market forces.

    WSJ: Allan Meltzer: A Look at the Global One Percent

  • Mr Connor told delegates that if Christmas Day opening became widespread it would destroy an important day for many families.

    BBC: Monday news in brief

  • All of them, he says, have one thing in common: they started strongly to discourage vehicle ownership before it became widespread.

    ECONOMIST: A survey of commuting

  • Hackers doing it for real would, if the use of such watermarks became widespread, have access to a large number of files for comparison.

    ECONOMIST: Digital watermarks

  • In essence, little has changed since, but plywood soon became the popular choice for the bats and the "skinning" of the tennis balls became widespread.

    CNN: On the road: Barbados' twist on tennis

  • If such a trend became widespread enough, the institutional demand for physical gold could spike, raising the risk of defaults that could leave some people holding worthless paper.

    FORBES: Is Your Gold Worth The Paper It's Printed On?

  • It became widespread in the run-up to the 2009 elections.

    BBC: Why are India's media under fire?

  • But the past five years of the ruling Pakistan People's Party have seen its popularity wane as inflation mushroomed, electricity blackouts became the norm and militant attacks became widespread.

    WSJ: Bomb Strikes Pakistani Refugee Camp

  • The deity's figure is identified with the rice spirit that had been worshipped by the original people of Bali, before Indian traders brought the Hinduism that became widespread in the 7th century.

    BBC: High spirits in Bali

  • School busing for integration became widespread in the 1970s after years of unsuccessful challenges to the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 decision, Brown v Board of Education, which ruled that separate and unequal school systems were unconstitutional.

    ECONOMIST: Integration (1)

  • Henry Ford's mass-production techniques became widespread.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • The upshot of all this activity is a marked reduction in the rate of new infections, though sceptics point out that the fall began before ARV use and circumcision became widespread, and that the role of behavioural changes (including a greater willingness to use condoms) should thus not be underestimated.

    ECONOMIST: The 19th International AIDS Conference: Looking into the future | The

  • The practice became more widespread in the community after a small number of individuals who were held in high esteem because of their community spirit applied it successfully to create land and produce food.

    UNESCO: Title

  • "As the 20th century moved on and photography became more widespread, images in advertising, movies and media endorsed different values, a sense of euphoria, and emphasized the need to project a positive personality, " he said.

    CNN: Does virtual travel cramp your style?

  • 's U.K. newspaper unit from late 2007 to mid-2009, has said he became aware of widespread wrongdoing in late 2010 as a result of evidence that surfaced in civil lawsuits against the paper.

    WSJ: Fresh Hacking Emails Released

  • The emails released Tuesday drive at a key question in the phone-hacking saga: when senior News Corp. executives first became aware of the widespread nature of wrongdoing at the News of the World.

    WSJ: Fresh Hacking Emails Released

  • It grew in popularity, reaching its height in the mid-18th century, when its distillation was so widespread the era became known as the Gin Craze.

    WSJ: Will Lyons on Wine: An Adventurous Spirit

  • Then it became the looming threat of widespread European defaults.

    FORBES: Euro Still Too Expensive Versus Dollar, Expect Parity

  • This competition would become more intense and effective the more widespread HSAs and similar incentives became.

    FORBES: Newt Gingrich's Entitlement Reform Plan

  • Meanwhile in the US, circumcision came to be so widespread, "it became part of how people viewed the normal body, " says Gollaher.

    BBC: Circumcision, the ultimate parenting dilemma

  • Correspondents say that Jonglei has been hit by widespread ethnic violence since South Sudan became independent from Sudan in July 2011 - with much of it taking place in Pibor county, where the UN peacekeeping force is based.

    BBC: Indian Unmiss solider in Jonglei

  • Though she says she doesn't want to play the blame game, Lagarde does think it was a mistake for Treasury Secretary Paulson to let the global financial services firm Lehman Brothers fail last month because that led to widespread distrust among banks which then became reluctant to lend to each other.

    NPR: G-7 Leaders: We'll Tackle Crisis Together

  • Some have suggested that N. ceranae alone might be sufficient to cause CCD, as the fungus is believed to have been widespread since 2006, when CCD first became a problem.

    ECONOMIST: Agriculture: The bees are back in town | The

  • Worthington E became a best-selling beer for Bass in the 1970s, when it saw widespread distribution as a filtered and pasteurised keg bitter.

    FORBES: I'll Have An E Please, Bob

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