Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Spread of Anti-Science
Business School students found out as the news spread quickly across this school's Allston campus yesterday afternoon. McArthur said students would be told of the decision in a letter he and Rudenstine wrote to students yesterday...
East Cambridge leaders say they are attempting to strike a balance between growth--which they predict will spread throughout the old neighborhood if left unchecked--and the preservation of long standing community bonds...
...same forces that had pushed the failed prohibition into effect were still at work. They forced the establishment of blue laws and high drinking ages in many states (including Massachusetts), all designed to limit the spread of alcohol, mostly due to concerns about dissolute behavior. More recently, the national government has re-established alcohol policy along these lines supported by the forces of conservative moralism in coalition with liberal do-gooders (Mothers Against Drunk Driving, for example...
Must those of us who abhor abortion, then, reconcile ourselves to seeing it spread unchecked? By no means. We can refuse to practice it ourselves-or, if we are male, beseech the women who carry our children to let them be born, and promise to support them, and mean it and do it. We can counsel and preach to others; those of us who are religious can pray. And we need not despair. Though some of our opponents may urge ABORTION ON DEMAND AND WITHOUT APOLOGY (an actual sign held up at one rally), by far the greater number...