Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan will deliver a speech on the Iran-Contra affair next week, on a day still unspecified, but spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said the president does not intend to "go into every detail" about the testimony which was spread over three months of hearings...
...Indeed, the makeup of the commission struck many as a recipe for inaction rather than progress. Fumed AIDS Activist Ann McFarren: "President Reagan's appointments are unconscionable." Reagan, however, defended his choices during a hospital tour and even held an AIDS-afflicted baby. "When it comes to stopping the spread of AIDS," said he, "medicine and morality teach the same lessons...
...restructuring) have become the watchwords of a bold attempt to modernize his country's creaky economic machinery and revitalize a society stultified by 70 years of totalitarian rule. In televised addresses, speeches to the party faithful and flesh- pressing public appearances -- often with his handsome wife Raisa -- he has spread his gospel of modernization. Translating his words into action, he is streamlining the government bureaucracy, reshuffling the military, moving reform-minded allies into the party leadership and allowing multicandidate elections at the local level. He has loosened restrictions on small-scale free enterprise and introduced the profit principle in state...
...major obstacle to the spread of private enterprise, says Duke University Economist Thomas Naylor, "is not ideology but rather the lack of familiarity with market mechanisms." That shortcoming was illustrated recently by the baffled reaction of a shopkeeper in a state-owned Moscow clothing store when asked her views on the new private companies. Suppose someone wanted to produce shoes privately, she said. "Where would they get the leather or the rubber?" Such materials have always been distributed to state-run enterprises by Gossnab, the government's main supply agency. There is not yet a procedure under which a private...
Others manage to find strength and serenity in their affliction. Gerald lo Presti, a second tenor with the Gay Men's Chorus, was diagnosed as having AIDS in 1985. When crippling lesions spread to his vocal cords, Lo Presti had the lesions burned off and kept singing. When he could no longer sing the tenor range, he relearned all his parts in bass three weeks before the season began. Still later, he insisted on a blood transfusion that would allow him to tour with the chorus. "He practically had to be held up," recalls Perry George, a member...