Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will pay the price sooner or later if you don't intervene. And later it could cost you 10 times more. If it is a disease, it may spread, and you never know how this disease can hurt you. The U.S. also has the special responsibility of being a superpower. If you want to play a role in international affairs, you must get involved in the security of the world. You have a responsibility belonging to the family of nations. We all have a responsibility: we are in the same boat...
...Zairian border town of Goma. The bottlenecked Goma has proved a frustrating place from which to launch a rescue effort, even though the largest contingent of refugees has gathered in and around the city. U.S. aircraft landed there today with vital equipment to purify contaminated water that has spread cholera among tens of thousands of the 1.2 million refugees...
...even if one can understand the President's inability to block the spread of nuclear weapons, it is harder to understand his leaving us defenseless should they ever be fired our way. If we cannot deny outlaw states the Bomb, why are we not defending ourselves against...
...this example illustrates a general problem for the humanities at Harvard, according to administrators and professors--respective departments are so spread out that little interaction occurs...
Which is the big, potentially fateful trouble. North Korea has been organized so tightly into a pyramid of power with Kim Il Sung at its apex that the possibility of a cataclysmic social implosion cannot be ruled out. Not that many years ago, Pyongyang still confidently spread the word that Kim's homeland was a paradise on earth and that South Korea was a brutally poor, miserable place under Uncle Sam's bootheel. "The game is finished," observed one South Korean official. Not only is the South's economy 14 times stronger than the North's, he pointed...