Word: outbreaks
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...fact, the current outbreak of relative peace and the potential for a changed U.S.-Soviet relationship under Mikhail Gorbachev present an immense new foreign policy challenge that the candidates have yet to face: managing what may be the last stages of the cold war and inventing a new world role for the U.S. in an international system that may, in our lifetime, no longer be defined by the East-West struggle. Instead, the foreign policy debate in the campaign has focused mainly on two peripheral issues: drugs and trade...
...dealt with large scale public health campaigns before. In the 1970s, during a severe influenza outbreak, UHS organized a massive inoculation effort. "It was planned for months. There was a cast of thousands. We administered 10,000 shots in three days," Postel says...
...megabids were the most startling manifestations of a fresh outbreak of merger mania. So far this year, 4,813 mergers and acquisitions, worth $366 billion, have been launched or completed. That compares with 4,082 transactions, valued at $249 billion, during the same period last year. As daily stock-trading volumes languish at a fraction of their bull-market highs, and small investors seem a vanishing breed, mergers and acquisitions provide the only excitement around...
...second volume of William Manchester's projected triple-decker biography covers the years leading up to the outbreak of World War II, when Churchill was indisputably right. Out of power and derided as a crank, he sounded the alarm about the terrible plot being hatched inside Hitler's deranged mind. The story is familiar, but, told with skill and vivid anecdotes by Manchester, it continues to shock and horrify. Four times, by Churchill's count, firm action could have stopped Hitler without a shot's being fired; four times Britain's leaders, along with their counterparts in France, ignored...
...tangible return for their requested sacrifices. In China people are balking at being asked to cut back after a decade of reform- engendered prosperity. Both plans, moreover, face dilemmas on the crucial but politically explosive problem of price reform, a matter that in China recently led to the worst outbreak of panic buying by consumers in nearly 40 years...