Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mean lifeblood to the contras. A vote not to would be an enormous morale boost to the Sandinistas. Each side knows that a successful major offensive in the next few weeks could help sway fence-sitters on Capitol Hill, and fighting has accordingly intensified. The fitful guerrilla war has spread to eight of the country's 16 departments, and the death toll is mounting. In the first two weeks of February alone, the Sandinistas claimed 189 contra casualties...
With about 27,000 employees in a building spread over 29 acres, the Pentagon is often a managerial morass. The Defense Department signs more than 50 million contracts a year and spends some $800 million a day. Complicating matters is the rivalry among the armed services for money, material and men. Last week a group of military experts at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies released a report calling for a restructuring of the Pentagon...
...just under $1 million. He would probably also exercise stock options that could be worth tens of millions of dollars. Pickens is a man of Texas-size property. "He can live like an Indian prince," says a friend. His holdings include the 2B Ranch, a 14,000-acre spread where he and Beatrice stable eleven horses and hunt together. Then there is a 6,500-acre Oklahoma cattle ranch and, for a change of scenery, a vacation retreat in California's Palm Springs. Pickens' $1.5 million year- round home in Amarillo boasts a sunken tennis court, a 20-ft.-high...
...trouble began at B.U. about three weeks ago when two students contracted the measles. Since then, 53 more students have come down with the disease. Though no new cases have been reported in the last 24 hours, B.U. officials are continuing to take all precautions to prevent the spread of measles to the neighboring community and universities...
Harvard, which hosts the Women's Eastern Swimming Championships, will not allow B.U. to compete in the event for fear that the measles might be spread to other schools, according to George Carpenter, B.U.'s sports information director...