Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government and the Nicaraguan insurgents "would be to make the U.S. the enforcer of [the late Soviet President Leonid] Brezhnev's doctrine of irreversible Communist revolution." In another article, Casey wrote that the problems in Central America reflected the Soviet Union's strategy of using surrogates like Nicaragua to spread its influence in the Third World...
...European doubt, compounded by erratic U.S. diplomacy. As the Soviets continue their vast military buildup, including both nuclear and conventional forces, the U.S. security guarantee has come to be seen as less convincing and, paradoxically enough, too frightening for a new generation of skeptical Europeans. Peace movements have spread. A long recession has helped foment cynicism about the need to defend an ailing consumer society, and the allies increasingly have been quarreling over financial and trade issues...
...deeply divided over a number of issues, including alliance with the Socialists. Scares, for his part, would probably like to strike a deal with the Social Democrats. He needs the 75 votes that the Social Democrats are expected to command in the next parliament, and he wants to spread political responsibility for salvaging the economy. Said he: "We must declare a political and social truce that will permit the country to overcome the crisis. It is not a task for one group or party...
During a press conference held Friday by the student protesters, a spokesman for a group of opponents to the occupation forced his way to his right to spread. He spots for five mistakes after the crowd voted to allow his speech...
...content with this success, members of Steve's Ice Cream Inc., headed by President Joey Krugnale are pushing to spread their ice cream tradition to other colleges across the country...