Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...estimated the daily spread of new HIV infections at 8,500. He said by the year 2000 scientists expect 50 million people to be infected with the virus...
...AIDS is not over," Ho said. "World-wide, most infected persons cannot access the promising new therapies, and much remains to be done in controlling the spread of this epidemic...
Jain and the five other Harvard students spread throughout the studio are teachers in CityStep, an organization that teaches dance-theater to Cambridge fifth-and sixth-graders...
This attitude is revealed in two other controversies: the Communications Decency Act (the Internet censorship law overturned by the Supreme Court in June) and encryption (a still unresolved conflict concerning government efforts to stop the spread of uncrackable computerized secret codes). In both these cases, unlike in the tax issue, the Webbies are basically in the right. But their indignant absolutism, their refusal to recognize any valid concern on the other side, is obnoxious. Government is right to be concerned that criminals and foreign enemies will be harder to spy on. And parents are right to be worried about some...
...Clinton administration is increasingly concerned that Japan's current economic crisis could spread to the country's fragile banking system and force the Japanese government to take action that could explode the U.S. trade deficit, reports Money Daily...