Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next day, Feb. 28, from which the incident got its name, a crowd demanding justice rallied outside of the governor's office. Police fired into the crowd, killing several people and inciting an uprising that spread across the island...
Economic liberalization spread through the land, sparking national growth that has averaged 10% a year for the past 18 years. Millions of Chinese go home each month with bulging wallets, accumulating private wealth in stocks, bonds and bank deposits that has jumped sixtyfold since 1980. The average per capita income last year stood at about $250, but people live far better than the number implies, since the prices of goods and services remain relatively low. The Chinese can buy cars, appliances, TVs, pagers, cell phones, computers--all the expensive gadgetry of advanced industrialism. Private enterprises have expanded to make...
...just too busy to give loads of time to their courses--and considering the temptations offered by fame at Harvard, we cannot put the blame only on them. If Harvard valued teaching more--and increased the size of the faculty to increase the faculty-student ratio and to spread the administrative obligations of faculty among more professors--perhaps all professors, including the superstars, would be able to devote more time to their interaction with students. In my opinion, every professor should teach an undergraduate section in their larger lecture courses, the way many professors at Princeton...
...Blood poisoning is a significant systemic infection, which, as it progresses, can spread to other body organs," said Donna Campbell, UHS ambulatory nursing coordinator. "It's a very significant illness, and it's nothing we see very often...
Currently, the primary focus of SCAN is to stop the spread of Chagas disease, an epidemic that kills 45,000 South Americans each year...