Normally, the slime spreads out its network of tube-like 'legs', called pseudopodia, to fill all the available space.
Concentration of power production confines its viewscape blot to a small place (although it spreads out emissions, accidental and otherwise).
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Beneath your feet spreads out the world's largest carpet, made by a 1, 200-strong army of the finest Persian carpet weavers.
Light passing through each microlens focuses at a point a few tenths of a millimetre beyond it, and thereafter spreads out as a cone.
The prevalence of water in the north, however, spreads out the game: you will often find big cats perched dramatically atop red rock outcrops, the better to spot prey.
This is also the first product to ever incorporate a unique technology which spreads out vibrations throughout the entire structure so drivers can feel the track through the wheel and the pedals.
In Chicago, more than a third of the district's 675 schools opened Aug. 13, part of a year-round schooling effort that spreads out the school calendar with shorter summer and winter breaks.
Around back, the phones share a subtle, non-textured patterning that spreads out just below the 2-megapixel camera and serves to add a small amount of flair to what is an otherwise utilitarian build.
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Yet the most compelling aspect of this documentary is what it reveals about Mr. Allen's process, starting with the scraps of paper he spreads out on his apartment bed to show us how he collects and sorts through ideas before sitting down to type a script.
Once the container is spinning at the correct speed (typically a few revolutions per minute), the mercury spreads out to form a layer less than a millimetre thick, and in such a way that variations in the thickness of the mercury layer compensate for the imperfect shape of the container.
"Falling home prices, rising food and energy costs, which will inevitably lead to slower consumer spending, are reducing expectations for corporate profitability, pushing up defaults and widening out spreads, " Hintz wrote in a research note Tuesday.
Credit default swap spreads have widened out to record levels this week, while Italian and Spanish bond yields have risen, as worries are keener that the EU debt problems could morph into a debt contagion in Europe or beyond.
The euro weakened in response to the report while peripheral government bond spreads continued their blow out against German bunds.
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This also happens to be important regarding the spread if the spreads are too far out of range range trading would be difficult.
Forbes columnist and money manager Marilyn Cohen thinks there are some screaming bargains among corporates, in part because spreads versus treasuries are out of whack.
You may have noticed that I talk about considering out of the money spreads.
Mr. LITAN: That should have comforted the bond holders and all the debt that's been issued by both Fannie and Freddie, but nonetheless there's still some nervousness out there because the spreads on their debt have gone up.
As Beijing figures out what to do, it is keeping interest spreads wide to bolster the banks, hoping that they can earn their way out of a predicament.
And so I leave you this morning as a gray mist spreads across the castle stonewall, gazing out at the rushing waters beyond lost in an Irish reverie.
So the priority of George Bush, wary of tangling himself as Bill Clinton did in the arcane grievances of Arabs and Israelis, is to put out the fire before it spreads and complicates his plans for Iraq.
Not even critics who complained that bailed-out banks were given free money by the Fed to generate fat interest spreads, then reinstated dividends to make their stocks rise in time for bonuses to be paid out, are saying anything about closing the barn door after the cows have gotten out.
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And the credit spreads, we start to see those blow out, then we will get extremely more cautious.
Risk assets are taking a nosedive around the world on this shocking twist, half the banks in Italy are halted and credit default swaps have blown out to all-time record spreads.
Today, spreads on five-year Tyco bonds have blown out to 500 basis points, and ten-year bonds to 400.
Though the series continues to show its age, shedding another 9% of its viewership last season, it still out-rates the competition by significant spreads.
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You can work out default expectations by looking at the spreads on speculative bonds and making an assumption about the amount investors will recover from companies that fail to pay up in full.
Then that cost, small or large, can be financed in different ways out of taxes (in which case the burden falls on today's workers) or out of extra government borrowing (which spreads the burden to more distant generations, albeit at the cost of eroding the added-saving benefit).
Equity strategists at Salomon Smith Barney point out that, in the past, tightening credit spreads have been a reliable leading indicator of rising share prices.
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