Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Simmons fondly recalled the old election style, with parties and political debates spread out during a week-long vote tally, but said the new technology is a definite plus for Cambridge voters. However, she cautioned voters who might interpret election-night vote tallies as final results...
...enabled Chautauqua County health officials to identify Williams as a sexual predator. In August, health commissioner Robert Berke found he had a sixth case in five months of a young girl who tested positive for HIV. The county had recorded only 50 AIDS cases since the disease began to spread in the 1980s. Although Williams used 18 aliases, including names such as Face and JoJo, caseworkers went back to the six women and eventually figured out that they'd all had sex with the same man. Because of confidentiality laws in New York designed to protect people with HIV, Berke...
...dread scenario goes something like this: the emerging Asian economies--Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines--either slow sharply or sink into recession, and the ills spread throughout the rest of Asia, including Japan, which ships nearly half its exports to those countries. Japan's already sluggish economy buckles further, and because it is America's third largest trading partner, its difficulties are felt in the U.S., and ultimately throughout the world...
...Monday's near meltdown, there were already flickering signs of trouble. The markets in emerging Asia had been sliding for several months--a year in the case of Thailand. Those markets were down 20% to 40% even before the Monday panic. Somewhat suddenly a few weeks ago, the selling spread to more seasoned Hong Kong--the East's most solid economy--whose stock market declined 18% in the week leading to America's market problems. When the U.S. market finally buckled on Oct. 24, the stage had been set for a massive case of the jitters. As the week began...
...chairman to puzzle anew over the combination of muscular economic growth and low inflation that have characterized the U.S. expansion since 1992. He frequently refers to the phenomenon as a "new paradigm," although he remains chary of how durable it will prove. Greenspan and other economists credit the spread of technology with improved productivity, which paves the way for faster economic growth without price increases. The problem: productivity increases are difficult and sometimes impossible to document. Nevertheless, there is no doubt about the spread of high technology: recent studies show it has powered 27% of the rise...