Word: spreading
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...disparate sentences were Congress's hasty answer to the drug panic that swept America in 1986, following the rapid spread of crack sales through major urban areas. Ironically, it was the cocaine death that summer of Len Bias, a promising basketball player who had recently been drafted by the Boston Celtics, that propelled Congress to act. Then Speaker Tip O'Neill, his ears ringing from the outcry of his Cambridge constituents, pressed House committees for swift antidrug legislation. "We didn't have hearings on this, which is really extraordinary," says Eric Sterling, then counsel to the House Judiciary Committee...
...frightening facts have emerged indicating that Asahara had the money, the means and the intention to wreak his version of Armageddon on Japan. The March 20 nerve-gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, which killed 12 people and sickened 5,500, and the thwarted attempt to spread deadly hydrogen cyanide gas in the Shinjuku station on May 5 were intended as preludes to worse disasters, police sources are suggesting in leaks to the Japanese press. The big show was apparently set for November, when plans called for cult attacks on government buildings, the Diet and the Imperial Palace...
...Force Capt. Scott O'Gradytraded his Bosnian diet of grass, rainwater and ants for a feast of lamb chops and crab meat salad today alongside President Clinton in the White House. Taking in the spread, O'Grady cracked: "You'll understand, Mr. President, if I don't eat the salad." Flanked by the fighter pilot's parents, grandparents, brother and sister, Clinton and the top Pentagon brass paid tribute to the pilot's courage and to the readiness of the Marines who rescued him last Thursday. "He gave us something more precious than we can ever give him: a reminder...
...important issues of the day. Seeing all sides of an issue must not entail an abandonment of the right to take a side. The great actors in history are great precisely because of the courage of their convictions: Lincoln as the Union split, Churchill as the Nazi menace spread. The ability of these men to see through the confusion of their times and stand for ideas, principles or nations was precisely what made them unusual...
Recruitment is often made difficult by thetechnical knowledge required for jobs such aswater or public works. In such departments,wide-spread advertising is sometimes impracticalbecause only minorities with specialized know-howcan apply...