Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Undergraduates have created a Coalition for Student Aid, which, while hardly igniting wide-spread protest, managed to rally students to campus and other area demonstrations. More important. President Bok--known more for his reservations about speaking out than for his national leadership--testified last spring at both congressional and state legislative hearings about the need for additional funding for student...
...veritable feast, and the 30 members of Congress who sampled the delicious spread of food on Capitol Hill last week did so to make a point: all of the fresh vegetables, fruits and meats served had been salvaged from dumpsters at local supermarkets and wholesale depots after having been discarded as unsold or unsalable...
...recalled the labor wars of the 1930s. As union workers hurled railroad spikes and ball bearings at state troopers and strikebreakers, stinging clouds of tear gas and chemical spray swirled into protesters' eyes. Earlier, enraged members of Local 222 of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union had spread nails across the highway. Then, screaming "Scab! Scab!" they threw rocks and bricks at newly hired workers trying to enter the plant. Republican Governor Charles Thone was finally forced to summon 160 National Guardsmen to aid the 100 besieged state police. It was the first time that the Guard...
...hand, to complicate matters further, there are some women who are barely aware of their herpes outbreaks and the periods during which they are high transmission risks. They sometimes have internal, hard-to-see lesions, they may be carrying the virus in their genital secretions, and a few may spread the disease via shedding from the cervix without showing any overt symptoms. For many women, the disease exacerbates their doubts about casual sex; they feel they were pushed into it by a permissive culture, then made to pay a heavy price...
More than simply a medical story, herpes, the venereal disease for which there is no cure to date, is a subject of staggering dimensions. Its spread throughout the U.S. is a serious, wholly unanticipated consequence of the sexual revolution. The extent to which this so-called social disease has infected, in many more ways than are obvious, the life of a growing number of Americans became apparent when TIME'S bureaus were asked to make an initial assessment of the importance of the story...