Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...delayed for nearly two months by a sharp split in the Administration. Health authorities believe that the best AIDS prevention consists of candid information and safe-sex techniques like condom use, while conservative officials hold that chastity and marital sanctity are the only moral methods for preventing its spread...
...months HHS officials have been quarreling over the AIDS policy with Education Secretary William Bennett and other right-wing activists who argued that a dose of "appropriate fear" might be necessary. "Irresponsible sexual behavior" is the "main cause of the spread of AIDS," reads one memo from the Department of Education to HHS. The memo goes on to say that an earlier and more explicit HHS draft on AIDS education "resembles a dog-care manual. Not guidance for people." In a statement of principle accompanying the plan's release last week, Bennett wrote, "Young people must be told that...
...downer is that a pyramid payoff requires an ever larger supply of new investors, until eventually the scheme crashes. To protect the unwary, pyramid games have been made illegal in most states. Even so, the craze has spread on college campuses: at the University of Maryland, automated teller machines ran short of cash this month after one high-flying weekend...
...turned into a composite of Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman, crisscrossing the country to study and contain flare-ups of EHF. Cook's best-selling technique is infallible: he lowers his readers' resistance with hard science, then exposes them to the woman-in-jeopardy scenes and chase sequences that spread his infectious tale to the moviegoing population...
...bill for emergency aid to the homeless was passed by Congress last month. That was not tough-minded either, since the $50 million to be spread around the entire country can hardly solve the problem. But the symbolism was important. In a nation that prides itself on its economic comeback from recession, the spectacle of people huddling around trash-can fires is ethically embarrassing. One makes five or ten serious moral choices (give money, pass them by, what?) on the way to work, and as many coming home, and the conscience at last is frayed. Says Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis...