Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite dioxin's effect on laboratory animals, it has never been conclusively established if dioxin-contaminated Agent Orange is directly responsible for ailments in humans more serious than chloracne, a disfiguring skin problem. But after a 1976 explosion at an Italian chemical plant, which spread dioxin over a village and resulted in chloracne and the widespread death of animals, many veterans became convinced that Agent Orange was responsible for most of their ailments...
...speech. "We have provided just enough aid to avoid outright disaster, but not enough to resolve the crisis, so El Salvador is being left to slowly bleed to death," he declared. Conveying both anger and urgency, the President painted a harsh picture of Soviet, Cuban and Nicaraguan attempts to "spread Communism by force throughout the hemisphere." Alternately evoking that alarming picture and declaring the Administration's commitment to programs of longterm, peaceful economic and social assistance for Central America, Reagan implicitly justified his Administration's policy of CIA-backed warfare against Nicaragua. He summed up his challenge...
...opening ceremonies. Although local business thrives during an Olympiad, the host's tax coffers are rapidly depleted. If the site of the Games were made permanent, the initial expenditure would be offset by a lack of building requirements for all subsequent Olympiads. The initial construction costs themselves might be spread out, and assumed by the various participating nations...
...dawn broke on the first day of the month, long lines of blue-uniformed militia, armed with lead-filled white truncheons, spread out along the deserted streets of the Polish seaport of Gdansk. During the past two years, supporters of the outlawed Solidarity trade union had turned the annual holiday celebration into a demonstration against the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski. As they were last year, the authorities appeared thoroughly prepared to handle any attempt to disrupt the May Day parade...
...eventually eclipsed his father's. His eerily mysterious M.I.T. Chapel at Cambridge, Mass., is not only one of his own but also one of 20th century architecture's greatest triumphs. After Eliel's death in 1950 at the age of 76, the academy's influence spread through the work of Eero and a number of students and associates who became some of the country's leading planners and architects, among them Edmund Bacon, Carl Feiss, Harry Weese, Cesar Pelli, Kevin Roche, Ralph Rapson, Gunnar Birkerts and E. Charles Bassett...