Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this "absurd.") But in 1983, according to his adversaries, Harry John began to behave oddly in far more significant ways, funneling $3 million into underwater treasure hunts, paying employees $100,000 salaries and spending $100 million to launch a still inconsequential television company known as Santa Fe Communications to spread the Catholic word worldwide. Harry, says Erica, had gone "Hollywood" in 1983-84, tooling around Los Angeles in a Lincoln Continental and indulging in $500 dinners. He also moved to Las Vegas and divorced Erica, claiming "irreconcilable differences." Erica and her co-plaintiff, former Marquette University Professor Donald Gallagher, claim...
...days his silence resounded around the world. Then finally last week Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev publicly acknowledged the gravity of the April 26 accident that destroyed a nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl power station in the Ukraine and spread radioactive fallout across the globe. "For the first time ever," Gorbachev declared on Soviet TV, "we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy...
...TASS reported that at one crucial point, three men in protective garments dove into a pool that had collected beneath the reactor and opened valves to let the water out. That ended the danger that the reactor could fall into the pool and set off steam explosions that would spread radioactivity farther than the original accident...
Groopman has begun a similar study of how AIDS is spread, involving as many as 500 patients over the course of three years. He plans to look at AIDS patients and their partners to determine what cofactors may be involved...
...plant suddenly became as close as wind and rain could carry it last week--and as menacing as a nightmare. While Soviet authorities insisted that there was little to worry about outside the Ukraine and neighboring regions, the cloud of deadly radioactive dust from Unit No. 4 that first spread over Scandinavia and Eastern Europe now crossed oceans and land masses, falling on an ever widening range of food and water supplies in dozens of countries. It also continued to poison the political and diplomatic atmosphere...