Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Swiss nationals who may have acted as agents for Holocaust victims or even Nazis. "I think there could be a large amount of plunder that was deposited by Nazis in Switzerland," Volcker said. In The New York Times' ad, about 2,000 names from Aalberts to Zwick were spread across nearly two pages of small type. Most are listed with full names, along with the city and country of residence, though some listings are incomplete. The ad also provides instructions for making claims, promising that "relaxed standards of proof" will apply...
...administrators of Harvard University have an obligation to control the spread of this highly infectious disease, but I thought immunizations were the answer. Apparently I was wrong. Here comes the quarantine. --Kevin E. Meyers Summer School Student
...would be like us to think that--every dead brown rock on every dead brown planet serving to exalt our life by contrast. We are the fireworks in the darkened universe, the Chinese firecrackers, the Roman candles and the sparklers. In a few short decades we may be spread out as settlers on various globes under the stars, calling out Tarzan yells to farther galaxies--kings of the brown hills...
POSITIVE PROSTATE FINDINGS In patients whose prostate cancer hasn't spread, the odds of dying from the disease within 10 years drop to less than 5% if the entire gland is surgically removed...
AILING. DESMOND TUTU, 65, South Africa's spiritual conscience; from prostate cancer that has reportedly spread; in New York City...