Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first to be stormed by Allied liberators in 1944, and dinner with President Valery Giscard d'Estaing at Versailles. Carter is expected to brief Giscard on the U.S.-Soviet strategic arms talks and will also discuss U.S. concern over the booming international arms business and the spread of atomic weapons. As a favor to Giscard, who leads a center-right political coalition that faces a strong challenge from the socialist and Communist parties in parliamentary elections this spring, Carter will make several public appearances...
...Texas originated in the Caribbean in the fall of 1976 and spread from there to the United States. A spokes woman for the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Ga., said yesterday the disease is a variant of the A Victoria virus, the most common strain of the flu in America in the past several years...
...virus, named "A Texas" because it was first isolated in a Texas laboratory, has already spread through Pennsylvania, New Jersey, parts of New York and southern Connecticut...
...Jersey and Pennsylvania, have reported flu outbreaks already. But all the viruses responsible appear to be A/Texas or A/Victoria, both recent mutants against which currently available vaccines are generally (though not totally) effective. It will take some months for the new A-l strain to complete its spread?and spread it almost certainly will, from the frozen stretches of Siberia and Manchuria to Europe...
...empire and, with it, the death of the classical world. The age of Christianity was officially brought to term when the Emperor Constantine formally embraced the new faith and in A.D. 324-330 moved the capital of the Roman Empire from Rome to Constantinople. But across the still vast spread of the imperial territories, which ran from the Euphrates to Gibraltar, there was no clean break with the old religions. For 400 years, the remnants of the pagan gods contended against Christianity and with the various mystery faiths of Egypt and Asia Minor...