Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with a cane, the result of bone-replacement surgery. Asked about his health, he offered an "Oh, so-so" to TIME. It is thus with increased urgency that John Paul has presented himself, the defender of Roman Catholic doctrine, as a moral compass for believers and nonbelievers alike. He spread through every means at his disposal a message not of expedience or compromise but of right and wrong; amid so much fear of the future, John Paul dared to speak of hope. He did not say what everyone wanted to hear, and many within and beyond his church took offense...
When it comes to organization, however, the troops go high-tech. The militia movement, says Berlet, "is probably the first national movement organized and directed on the information highway." Patriot talk shows, such as The Informed Citizen, a half-hour program broadcast on public-access TV in Northern California, spread the word that American values are under attack from within and without. Militias also communicate via the Patriot Network, a system of linked computer bulletin boards, and through postings in news groups on the Internet. One recent posting by a group calling itself the Pennsylvania Militia, more specifically...
...bankruptcy also spread anxiety far beyond the borders of Orange County. Japanese investors sold off dollars and U.S. securities. Stock and bond prices swung down on Wall Street amid fears that other large municipalities might harbor high-risk investments. In Washington, Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan told Congress that he was closely monitoring the situation in Orange County; meanwhile, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission launched a probe into some of Citron's trades in derivatives, which are volatile securities whose value is pegged to some underlying asset or market and which can magnify an investor's gains or losses...
...think Parcells will call the Bledsoe household on Christmas day to spread his holiday cheer? How about that reporter he damn near beheaded? Just wondering...
Elders was removed after President Clinton learned of remarks she made at a World AIDS Day conference in New York. Her controversial statements were made in response to a question about teaching masturbation to school children as a way of fighting the spread of sexually transmitted diseases...