Word: spread
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...choices other than to rescue them or suffer humiliating defeat in an area only a short drive, as President Reagan likes to say, from Harlingen, Texas. We'll be in big trouble with our little war. This time college students won't be exempt. Proximity, along with the spread of the war itself to Central American neighbors, will require universal mobilization...
With that, federal officials wheeled vans to the doors, unloaded portable computers and typewriters and fanned across the bank's five floors, counting cash in the vault, poring over spread sheets and answering the ringing phones with "FDIC." In the executive suite, Secretary Debbie Bratton watched in disbelief as strangers carted off the Texas banking charter. Fretted New Accounts Representative Norma Villaloboz: "Everyone's in shock. Hopefully, somebody will...
...week's end a rescuer appeared. The American Bank, a smaller institution two blocks away, agreed to acquire the insured deposits of Unitedbank and buy some of its good loans. As word spread that withdrawals could be made on Monday, worried depositors in the lobby broke into wide grins...
...alarm over AIDS has spread, some in the Pentagon have been urging outright dismissal from the service of anyone who tests positive for the AIDS virus. Instead, the Defense Department last week reaffirmed a 1985 policy that gives supervisors the authority to remove infected individuals from a wide variety of duties, including flight status and other tasks requiring a high degree of stability or alertness...
...will retain their majority. But Botha is aged, and the struggle to succeed him is expected to start soon after the election. Professor Sampie Terreblanche estimates that the "enlightened" wing of the party amounts to about 30% and the reactionary right wing to another 30%, with the remaining 40% spread out between. The winner must face new elections in 1989, and that clash may generate major changes, new alignments, even a new party...