Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spread, however, is likely to be gradual and "is dependent on funds," Pilbeam said. Although the program is "clearly of educational merit," he said that it was also labor intensive...
Jackson's coalition, which he called the "rainbow," spread from Maine to Montana, Arkansas to Alaska. It included farmers and factory workers, teachers and technicians. It brought together all people who felt shut out of Ronald Reagan's America...
...nonsense leadership of retired Navy Admiral James Watkins. In releasing a hard-hitting 60-page report last week, Watkins politely but firmly dismissed the moralistic posturing that has characterized much of the White House's response to the AIDS epidemic and outlined a realistic policy to control the spread of the disease. "We waste a lot of rhetoric and excessive time on a couple of little issues, while the forest behind us is burning," declared Watkins. "We believe some major changes in course are necessary...
...admiral's proposal to spend nearly $2 billion a year in federal, state and local funds to beef up the war on drugs is the strongest signal yet that the commission believes the IV drug problem, if left unchecked, could result in the spread of the AIDS virus to the heterosexual population. Equally important, Watkins has shrewdly sized up the role the country's health- delivery system must play in combatting the devastation already caused by AIDS -- and found it badly wanting. The chairman's recommendations, which are expected to be approved by the full commission this week before going...
ECAC Towns are spread from upstate New York to downstate New Jersey, to the big cities (Boston, Providence) to towns barely bigger than a hockey rink (Canton, N.Y., Hamilton...