Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More than 25 fire and rescue vehicles responded to a three-alarm fire which spread through three floors of the Mather Court apartment building yesterday afternoon...
Nobody was injured in the blaze, which began on the first floor of the building at 1 Waterhouse St. The fire skipped the second floor, but spread to the third floor and part of the fourth floor...
...four Cornell first-years who recently authored an infamous e-mail which insulted women and used four-letter words could well have found themselves in trouble with the federal government. It doesn't matter that their e-mail was originally a private message to friends; the fact that it spread so rapidly, unknown to them, could easily have brought the message to the hands of a minor--and the misogynistic Cornellians to a courtroom. Although their message was offensive, it was protected under the First Amendment. As extensive users of electronic communication, Harvard and other college communities are especially affected...
PARIS: Breaking from Vatican doctrine, the French Bishops Conference has broken with Rome, giving its reluctant approval of the use of condoms to prevent the spread of the HIV virus. In a 235-page report titled "AIDS: Society in Question," the bishops conceded that condoms may be a weapon of last resort against the spread of the fatal disease. TIME Paris bureau chief Thomas Sancton notes that the bishops were careful to stress teachings on the importance of monogamy within marriage and abstinence before. Of the French Catholics, Sancton notes: "They haven't been as rebellious as the Germans...
...days before civilians actually start voting, the people who make their living in politics somehow agree on a standard, a point spread, an expectation. Thereafter, if a particular candidate is perceived as performing less well than expected, his victories are labeled losses--or vice versa. Since the actual election of a President depends on absolute numbers, it may all seem ridiculous, but it isn't. In fact, cause and effect have been well established. If, during the long course of caucuses and primaries, the point spread isn't beaten, momentum is lost and a candidacy can implode as cash...