Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enforcement officials in both Colombia and the U.S. warned last week that a feud between drug lords based in the Colombian cities of Medellin and Cali is not only getting bloodier at home but has spread north to New York City. Its cause, they say, is a drive by the Medellin cartel to muscle into the New York cocaine market long controlled by the mobsters from Cali...
...mixed in equal parts with water and applied to the body, Skin So Soft (price: $8.99 a pint) makes the wearer smell like a flower bed, but for some reason repels bugs. Avon claims to be baffled about why this is so, but the bath oil's reputation has spread by word of mouth. Among the devotees: former President Jimmy Carter, who uses it to keep away the no-see-ums in Georgia...
...chosen the judge, "it is hard, even for the losing party, not to accept the decision," says William Polkinghorn, senior counsel for Bank of America, who takes part in about half a dozen such proceedings each year. Though popular first in contract and labor disputes, rent-a-judging has spread to malpractice, family law and other areas: 70% of Judicate's caseload involves personal-injury suits...
...Bush. Spread by people in your business, Dave...
...protests were the first since last spring, when strikers plunged the country into the most widespread labor unrest since the tumult that spawned Solidarity in 1980. In response, authorities initially cut off food supplies to workers occupying a mine near Jastrzebie. But by week's end, as the unrest spread, the government's National Defense Committee threatened "appropriate decisions" and joint units of soldiers and military police patrolled Silesia...