Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Every year, I try to eat my age in platefuls of food. I never seem to spread it out enough, though, because I could only do three and a half this year," said Matt F. Delmont '00. "I was pretty embarrassed by my performance...
...Japanese government is willing to let it go under, it may signal a positive policy shift. And although the Tokyo stock exchange dropped 5 percent on the news, followed closely by drops in Hong Kong and South Korea, it seems Japan's economic woes are unlikely to spread worldwide. The National Association of Business Economists on Monday said the Asian crisis "will probably not have a signficant impact" on U.S. expansion in the next five years. And all was quiet in England, France and Germany today as traders entered their afternoon sessions...
Despite the overwhelming 97-point spread, the Crimson swimmers did keep their cheers loud and chins high...
...terrorists, like radical Islamist groups, who might slip such bioweapons into the U.S. and use them. It wouldn't take much. This is the poor man's atom bomb. A gram of anthrax culture contains a trillion spores, theoretically enough for 100 million fatal doses. The stuff can be spread into the air with backpack sprayers or even perfume atomizers. The U.N.'s specialists say that 100 lbs. of anthrax bacteria sprayed around a city of 1 million could kill 36,000 people within a week. And Saddam has produced anthrax in large amounts, along with botulinum, a poison that...
...encouraged students to go door-to-door to spread their message...