Word: spread
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lichten said the spill--caused by a rainstorm in August that flooded Cambridge sewage and water lines--spread from a basement bathroom, leaving a small pool of sewage about 25 feet in diameter in a hallway and two offices...
Late last week, however, Lichten said he received a call from Linguistics Chair Calvert Watkins complaining that the staff remained concerned about the spread of bacteria, mold or spores...
This interaction between Harvard and government authorities should continue, but on a larger scale. In an interview yesterday, Kleiman suggested the creation of a drug center along the lines of Harvard's inter-disciplinary effort to combine research and public policy questions stemming from the spread of the AIDS virus...
None of these expedients is desirable. Yet higher education, like the health-care industry, must either contain costs now or risk becoming the monopoly of the wealthy, a condition that would be socially undesirable. The alternative is ever increasing prices, with the cost spread among parents, students, federal and state government, and private donors. Quality, as educators never tire of saying, costs money -- and there is no easy solution. Laments Frederick Bohen, senior vice president at Brown University: "We're talking about a bunch of lousy choices...
...consider Paris, which will soon be several driving hours closer to London as work on a tunnel under the English Channel forges ahead. The French capital is fast becoming a major diplomatic crossroads, a host to economic summits, peace negotiations on Cambodia and talks to limit the spread of chemical weapons. In Spain, which will be host to both the Summer Olympics and World's Fair in 1992, a vibrant mood of enterprise and enthusiasm mirrors the distant days of another century, when Spanish ships braved the unknown to discover new lands and Christopher Columbus reached the Americas. Even Italy...