Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been said that totalitarianism is dead when a shopkeeper hangs and ant-government sign in his storefront window without fear of repercussion. Although Cub has not yet reached that stage, it is rapidly approaching it. Indeed, open criticism of Fidel Castro has now spread beyond the radio stations and restaurants of Miami to the crowded streets of Havana...
...Andreessen, the 23-year-old programmer who co-authored the original version of Mosaic while an undergraduate working at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. Because the program was developed with government money, the students gave it away free. It soon spread through the network like a virus. A million copies were downloaded from the NCSA computer system in the first year. Another million were distributed in the next six months. Meanwhile, the number of Web "sites" you can visit with Mosaic has exploded, from a few dozen a year...
Sommers' task is to somehow push the bureaucrats and the professors to do something about the problem. That will be difficult. The faculty committee best situated to help writing spread through the curriculum--the Standing Faculty Committee on Expository Writing--meets sparingly and is notoriously ineffectual...
...outbreak of pneumonic plague in western India has killed 100 people and has sent 300,000 others fleeing from the city where it originated. The country's entire medical-care apparatus has been put on red alert at the flare-up of the contagious, deadly disease to prevent its spread to the nearby megalopolis of Bombay. An outbreak this serious hasn't occurred in India in two decades...
Weld offered the night's best food. Media types and supporters farnished by a long day working the polls feasted on a spread set across one entire side of the Georgian Ballmom. They ate grilled Cajun chicken breast in a cream sauce, beef and vegetable kabobs and rumaki--which consists of a piece of chicken liver and a slice of a water chestnut, wrapped in bacon. Snickers had the opportunity to give on blue, red, and yellow tortilla chips, gus-camole, black bees sales, tomato sales, cheese, crackers, vegetables and dips...