Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They got the lead," said McLaughlin, "and they spread...
...recent months, local governments may have come to appreciate better the problems afflicting their North American neighbor: coca abuse has begun to spread across South America. The greatest culprit is a brown, pennies-cheap cigarette made of an addictive low-grade coca paste. Often known as brutos, the cigarettes contain impurities that have not been processed out, including caustic soda, sulfuric acid and kerosene. The cheap high, once favored only by teenage street kids, has now hooked a significant cross-section of society...
...things change, the uncertainty of their futures concerns many California farmers. "This is the worst it's ever been," complained Irwin Effird, 64, who raises mostly grapes on his 2,000-acre spread near Clovis. "I came through the '30s and can remember the problems. But back then the whole country was in the same position, not just farmers." Now there is a glut of domestic raisins and Effird's farm is worth half what it was just three years ago. Pat Ricchioti, 65, a grape and fruit farmer with 3,000 acres near Madera, was also gloomy. "I never...
...With the spread of fringe-group violence, ten states have enacted laws against paramilitary training. Laws against malicious harassment of people for racial or religious reasons exist in 29 states. Idaho's law was passed in 1983 after an Aryan Nations follower hounded a racially mixed family. Authorities have taken other steps to make Idaho extremists pay for their legacy of violence. The FBI and other federal agencies have mounted a "major investigation" of the state's right-wing cults. The Aryan Nations "church" has lost its federal and state tax exemption...
...conspiracy. The black authorities seem determined to find evidence of foul play. The hotel bartender, who hates whites in general and Tillman especially, feels free to slander the dead woman: "Daht ol boney-bag he call his muddah grabbin aht every blahck boy on de beach." As bad feelings spread and red tape unreels, the proprietor must store his mother's body in the kitchen freezer, prompting a walkout by the staff...