Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Society lawyers, who handle 70% of all criminal cases in the city, are on strike, in part because they believe superiors fired one attorney for refusing to add cases to his heavy client list. Says Gary Sloman, one of the striking Legal Aid lawyers: "We're being spread thinner and thinner...
...Their numbers include Roman Catholic priests in the Himalayas who wear the maroon robes of Buddhist monks. There are born-again Protestant bush pilots coming in on a wing and a prayer to land on narrow runways in the Amazonian and Indonesian jungles. They are seeking to spread the good news of Christ in a vast variety of situations: amid revolution and civil war in Central America; in parched, famine-haunted lands in Africa; in the forests of Southeast Asia, where the demons worshiped by animistic tribes are almost a palpable presence...
...contradictory became almost routine. Not in almost half a century had the suffering U.S. economy gone through more wrenching changes in a shorter period than during 1982, a year when interest rates at long last slumped but unemployment soared; when bankruptcies ballooned but the stock market roared; when recession spread across the economy like oil on a mud puddle but business boomed for a growing list of high-tech games and products for computer-crazed consumers. It was, in short, a year of mind-boggling contrasts. More than anything else, 1982 was the year when the three-year-old inflation...
...first the mysterious, deadly epidemic appeared to be confined to promiscuous male homosexuals. Next, it was detected in heterosexual drug abusers, Haitians and hemophiliacs. Now there is good evidence that acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, has spread to a fifth group: children. In Atlanta last week the Centers for Disease Control reported 22 suspected cases of AIDS in children under five in New York, New Jersey and California. The CDC is cautious about confirming the diagnoses, but at least four cases seem well documented...
...mainly the offspring of high-risk parents. Of the four best-studied patients, two had Haitian parents and two were children of intravenous drug abusers. One child's mother appeared to have AIDS and died of PCP. This pattern provides strong support for the theory that AIDS is spread by an infectious agent. But, says Dr. Richard O'Reilly, an immunologist at New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, "whether it is transmitted by close association after birth or through the placenta, we do not know...