Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Morris that makes Post cereals. Post was not losing share to Kellogg as much as to private-label brands, which can cost one-third as much as their national counterparts and have grown from 3% of the cereal market in 1987 to 10% today. (Industry insiders dub the price spread between store-brand and name-brand cereals "the gouge...
...problem centered once more on a shipment of macaques sent by the same Philippine supplier. One monkey from the shipment was discovered last month with a raging fever and bloody diarrhea; three days later it was dead. The rest of the pack was quarantined, but the disease had already spread. After a second monkey turned up sick last week, authorities decided to destroy the monkeys housed in the same hut--49 animals...
...other students, Assassin takes over their life. Myth and lore spread quickly through the hallways and entryways. Legends are made...
...twice that of molten steel. The reactor burned for two weeks slowly releasing dangerous radioactivity into the air. The radiation, carried by the wind, wound its lethal path across the Soviet Union's best farmland north toward Scandinavia. By week's end, an ominous pall of radiation had spread across Eastern Europe and toward the shores of the Mediterranean. The fallout caused an international uproar against the Soviet Union for its lax safety measures and its concealment of the fact that the dangerous radiation was floating toward neighboring countries. Ten years later, the site remains a contaminated mess. President Clinton...
...feels sympathetic to Britain and wants to lessen its economic loss by possibly killing fewer cows than is necessary to eradicate the disease. It shows a good spirit to want to spare economic hardship, but this must not override the real concern about a potential large-scale spread of the disease in humans. Once the genie is out of bottle, it is hard to put it back in. The potentially contaminated beef may reach Third World countries. There is no shortage of corrupt politicians who want to make big bucks at any cost. The whole world has shrunk...