Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tenement houses once stood. In Baltimore, a decrepit harborplace was turned into a yuppie shopping and eating complex in just a few years. New York's waterfront suffered a similar facelift with the creation of South Street Seaport, a shopping plaza akin to Faneuil Hall. And the trend has spread to East Cambridge...
Sitting by the Gate Three escalator and the Au Bon Pain stand that sells mini-Cokes for $2.50, I spread out the classifieds of the Phoenix and the Globe and circled jobs that, first, I could apply for, and second, gave their address; after all, I needed a job today. Realizing how little you are actually qualified to do is the first eye-opener. If you needed work--now--if Mommy and Daddy died abruptly (and--why not--violently), without a will, and Harvard disintegrated into a moldy pile of fellowship applications and GRE pamphlets, who would hire...
...screening be part of routine testing of hospital patients, pregnant women, marriage license applicants and clients of venereal disease and drug abuse programs. The aim is to spot the infection early, when its symptoms can often be controlled, if not cured, and when carriers can be persuaded not to spread the disease to others...
Issues of confidentiality of test results and possible discrimination against infected people still must be settled, he said. Promoting condom and spermicide use, fighting drug abuse and providing clean needles are more economical ways to stop the spread of AIDS...
...endorse mandatory widespread population screening," she said, "because the answer to the question, `What is the purpose of the test, and what would you do with the results?' is unclear. There is no treatment. There is no way to ensure that people will change their behavior and not spread the disease...