Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...epidemic of "viruses," tiny fragments of computer software created by mischievous programmers and hidden within the instructions of a larger program. Like their biological namesakes, computer viruses are characterized by an ability to replicate and invade other software with which they come in contact. Thus they can be spread from computer to computer by unsuspecting users who either swap disks or send programs to one another over telephone lines...
...relatively benign, like the strain currently making the rounds of the public computer networks that causes infected machines equipped with voice synthesizers to intone the words "Don't panic." But the epidemic is giving the computer industry a chill. The virus that struck Macintosh owners last month was apparently spread through a program called FreeHand which is published by Seattle-based Aldus Corp. FreeHand is the first commercial software product known to have been a virus carrier. The bug could just as easily have instructed its host computers to erase their storage disks. Several companies are now marketing "vaccine" programs...
...incorrect. Even more of the writing on the subject is misleading. Unfortunately this study only adds to the mounting toll of misinformation the disease. Their claim that AIDS is "rampant" in the heterosexual population is unsubstantiated by their research; their treatment of the ways in which AIDS is spread is irresponsible, and their recommendations are ill-advised. Their evidence does show that the public is not modifying its sexual behavior to prevent infection and it should be taken seriously, but one suspects that the misinformation and half-truths contained in this work are more likely to spread--and faster than...
Seconds after buying the spring's first box of baseball cards, I would spread the contents of each pack on a patch of thick grass at my elementary school as a kid. The number of cards being sold in 1988 would cover a whole natural grass infield...
...Harvard spread its offense, setting up attackman David Kramer at the top right corner of the box. The laxmen passed the ball around for only a few seconds before Kramer whipped off an underhanded shot. Kramer's bullet beat Vermont goalie Brian Eng to the upper corner...