Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...General Motors strike that started at an AC Delco plant in Flint, Michigan has now spread to nine more factories that produce some of the company's hottest products. The walkout has idled 30,900 workers. Plants in Pontiac, Lansing, Orion Township, Auburn Hills, and Buick City, Mich., as well as Doraville, Georgia, Janesville, Wisconsin, Ste. Therese, Quebec and Oshawa, Ontario were closed or crippled. The plants assemble cars on which GM is banking heavily, such as the Chevy Lumina and Pontiac Firebird, as well as the popular Chevy Suburban and Blazer sports utility vehicles, says TIME Detroit bureau chief...
According to Johnson, the concept of community policing has been around for more than 10 years, ever since Houston Police Commissioner Lee Brown implemented initiatives in his city to bring his police force closer to the community. Since then, the idea has spread to other cities...
...nearby apartment.) Today, police arrested a man found carrying a pistol along the papal route, deployed bomb-sniffing dogs around the Papal Nunciature and even examined boxes of chocolates carried by nuns. The pontiff, undeterred, told the throng the church in the Philippines has "a special vocation" to spread Christianity among the ancient cultures of Asia...
...most compelling evidence to date of giant black holes was offered by U.S. scientists in the cover article for this month's Nature magazine. Using a string of radio telescopes, spread from the Caribbean to Hawaii, scientists identified an area of turmoil in space 1 1/2 light years wide -- or 40 million times the size of the Sun. TIME science reporter Michael Lemonick reports that "the very strong assumption is that it has got to be a black hole." He explains that black holes were believed to come in two types: many the size of one star, and others believed...
...strike back. He may be learning that the street-fighting tactics that worked so well for him as a backbencher can look unseemly when they are tried by the Speaker of the House. And the vast, multimillion-dollar network of political and charitable organizations that he has built to spread his gospel could be a difficult target to defend. All of them draw their financial support from overlapping groups of business executives and other wealthy supporters whose identities Gingrich has resisted disclosing until recently. The donors range from restaurant and bar operators to the owners of vast mail-order operations...