Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your article, you left the impression that I had recommended that active homosexuals be "barred" from the food-handling business because of AIDS. Not so. The danger from homosexual food handlers is not AIDS, but the spread of enteric diseases (the so-called gay bowel syndrome), several of which are epidemic among gays and are spread by contaminated food...
Those responsibilities, as well as other special projects Jackson handled for Allison, will be spread around the existing staff--a move that has prompted some grumbling that the quickly growing K-School has begun to cut costs too much. Champion said yesterday that the K-School is trying to keep a lean operation with as few people as possible, but added that the school could absorb the growth without expanding its staff much...
Monge presides over the most successful democracy in Central America (see box). But because his country, which has no army, borders Nicaragua, Monge is feeling vulnerable to the spread of violence. Part of his hope in planning last week's meeting, which would have been the first direct high-level contact between the Reagan Administration and the Salvadoran guerrillas, was that it could lead to a negotiated settlement in Nicaragua as well as El Salvador...
...Patience is smaller than most G&S crews only seven women from the maiden's chorus and seven men the dragoon soldiers. And yet the small company ample fills the intimate Agassiz stage, which is highlighted with a colorful backdrop of two birds standing nose to nose and flowers spread over the two story set. The costumes are floral as well. Characters constantly flourish huge plastic flowers, reminding us that the traits the plot hangs on are ephemeral and will wilt in time...
...have been sold for food. Millions of Africans are aching through a dry spell perhaps less severe but certainly more widespread than the harrowing drought of 1973, which killed more than half a million. Refugees throughout these afflicted areas are often packed so tightly into camps that contagious illnesses spread swiftly and fatally. Kwashiorkor, a protein-deficiency disease, is sweeping through the infant population in South Africa's black rural areas, but many people cannot raise the $3.50 hospital admission...