Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been similarly grounded in facts or else have made minimal risks seem major ones. In May 1989, CR did a story on the health risks posed by the continued use of the chemical Alar to ripen apples. The piece made news in other magazines and on TV and helped spread alarm about the chemical; eventually, stores took Alar-treated apples off the shelf, costing U.S. apple growers an estimated $100 million in discarded produce. While some, including CR, still maintain that Alar could pose a hazard, the National Cancer Institute, the American Medical Association and the Surgeon General concluded that...
Over the past 15 years, India has become the world's largest reservoir of live kidney donors. In the 1980s the trade was centered in Bombay, but after a crackdown it spread to other areas, specifically the Madras suburb of Villivakkam, popularly known as ``Kidneyvakkam.'' Several thousand people living in abject poverty in Villivakkam have sold their kidneys. In a typical instance, Rani Saravanan said she had decided to have a kidney removed to obtain cash to feed her family and pay debts...
...saying that I understand it. However, these things are all over the place, and they're spreading at a healthy clip. Remember the movie "Gremlins?" Despite the conspicuous fact that other headgear is warmer and looks less like a dead pet, the Hairy Russian Intellectual Hat has spread faster than an e-mail chain letter...
...that Dunster has hot water. Whenever you have a chance and Sandra is within ear shot, be sure to mention showers, soap, shampoo, deoderant, Tide...whatever. Make sure you're always well groomed and smell like a Spring breeze. You could also get your friends to spread rumors about how obsessively clean you are, and how upset you had been when you couldn't bathe...
...recent years, the Law School has been criticized for its low number of women faculty. The issue sparked wide-spread student protest in 1992 and 1993. However, Warren's appointment comes as the latest in a series of recent women faculty hires...