Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They find a complex picture. On the one hand, the modern world fights disease with better treatment than ever before. On the other, byproducts of modernization, like rapid transportation, can spread epidemics world-wide...
...sanitation and little contact with rats, but disease could arrive from anywhere in the world in less than twelve hours by airplane. In fact, a flight arrives from India twice a week in Logan airport. Airports in the Middle East have even prohibited all flights from India to prevent spread of the plague...
Then the big U.S. military machine shifted gears again. As its troop levels reached 12,000 on the way up to 15,000, its power began to spread across Haiti and through the capital. The U.S. commander, Lieut. General Henry Hugh Shelton, a big, jut-jawed Ranger, told the Haitian leaders there would be no more police violence -- or else. Haiti's military chief, Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, quickly agreed. American military police took to the streets, patrolling and even directing traffic, while U.S. troops neutralized Haitian army and police posts. There were perils: Marines engaged Haitians in a firefight...
This would be one hell of a way to spread the gospel of big-time sports to all parts of the country. We already have a system with Las Vegas in the IHL where the team is independently owned and operated, serving for some old (e.g. Clint Malarchuk) and some new (Radek Bonk) stars as a financial safe haven in the world of labor and management strife...how tough would it be to piece together such a system which would truly put the pressure on bad teams to improve...
...plagues in India are continuing to spread to the far reaches of the subcontinent, with new cases reported in the huge metropolises of New Delhi and Calcutta -- both hundreds of miles away from where the diseases started. The official tally of deaths is 54, but unofficial -- and probably more accurate -- figures set the toll at about 300. India hasn't seen such a scourge since the 1950s, a major problem in fighting the disaster. Explains TIME associate editor Christine Gorman, who covers science: "One of the things that could work against them is the inexperience of the doctors...