Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ministers fiddle, a menacing oil slick continues to spread...
...land in the West Bank. Reacting with anger, the State Department repeated Reagan's call of last September for a freeze in settlement building in the West Bank. Then, for the first time, Spokesman Hughes hinted publicly that the U.S. might apply sanctions against Israel to halt the spread of settlements if Hussein joined the peace talks. Said Hughes: "We are determined to do our best to assure that the results of those negotiations are not prejudiced from the outset by activities of any party that reduce the prospects of a negotiated peace...
Stephen King's characters live in places like Libertyville, Penn., and travel to Pittsburgh for a special trip. They drink Iron City beer, eat Campbell's Chunky Beef Soup and spread their sandwiches on Wonder Bread. They belong to Weight Watchers and get their cars Midasized; their kids listen to Kiss and Andy Gibb, and their fathers work for H&R Block. And when they want to read a novel, no doubt they reach for a Stephen King...
Contrary to such statements, the aim of the Peace Corps was never to spread the American Dream like so much butter over needy countries. Its purpose is less egocentric--to provide a better understanding, at the grass-roots level, between nations. The you-scratch-my-back policy which has developed instead makes the Peace Corps little more than a smaller edition of the Agency for International Development, whose avowed purpose is to provide economic development--such as dams and highways for nations in need. In fact, the Peace Corps this year began providing manpower for some of AID's smaller...
...added that news of Harvard's invitation was spread throughout Poland by Solidarity's underground press...