Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hundreds of students last week marched into the streets of Dhaka in open defiance of martial law: When the students ignored orders to return to the campus, police shot tear-gas canisters into the crowd, which was armed with bricks, hockey sticks and knives. Throughout the day, as fighting spread to other Bangladesh cities, bands of students continued guerrilla-style raids, beating civilians, burning shops and attacking buses. By the time the army had restored order, three people were dead and 300 wounded in the worst violence since Ershad took power in a bloodless coup eleven months...
Agee's standing with Hennessy may have been doomed by a difference in style. While Agee enjoys the limelight, Hennessy is a low-key, no-nonsense executive. In December, Agee and Cunningham appeared in a PEOPLE magazine spread that included a picture of Bill on his knees before Mary. Asked about this by the Wall Street Journal, Hennessy said, "All I know is, I wouldn't do it." Cunningham is now a vice president for strategic planning at Seagram, the Manhattan-based liquor manufacturer. For the past eight months, she and Agee have been commuting between a suite...
...originated in Europe before World War II and had been introduced in New York by the international team of architects that designed the United Nations Headquarters building in 1947. But at that time the style had not really succeeded in Europe. Bunshaft's Lever House, completed in 1952, spread it with wildfire speed all over the world...
Enough time has passed since the integration battles of the early 1960s for revisionist writers to begin trying to spread the impression that Southern whites cured their own problems, as this movie tacitly suggests. Some people still remember, though, that it was brave Blacks and a strong federal government that played a major role in the real integration battles...
However, Raymond Gastil, a representative from Freedom House, a conservative think-tank, rose to the defense of the current Administration. He said that the United States has been effective in consistently condemning oppression wherever it occurs and fostering the spread of democracy through preferential support and economic and to democratic bound nations. However, he insisted that United States involvement be kept at a minimum...