Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some in Washington say Clinton should just order out the B-52s to bomb the North's plutonium reprocessing plant and two reactors, neatly destroying the danger. But that is unrealistic: a strike could spread a big radioactive cloud over the peninsula, miss hidden weapons or start a devastating war between North and South Korea. A more practical tactic would be the imposition of economic sanctions by the United Nations -- but even if China, long friendly to the North, did not veto an embargo, Pyongyang might feel cornered and lash...
...search for an effective treatment. Yet even highly optimistic observers do not expect a cure to be found before the end of this century. Still, as the Shalala announcement's exclusive focus on cure highlights, it is not acceptable to explore publicly the measures that could curb the spread of the disease by slowing the transmission of HIV, the virus that causes it. Indeed, before you can say What about prevention? the politically correct choir chimes in: You cannot call it a plague! You are feeding the fires of homophobia! Gay basher...
...Crimson has a policy against runningadvertisements that are false or promote hatred,"said Ira E. Stoll, president of The Crimson. "Idon't think we serve the public interest byhelping them spread a hateful message...
...women barefoot and pregnant, and especially to keep them from participating with the Big Boys downtown. By deconstructing the biases on which society has been built, feminists think they've finally enabled women to be liberated from the home--free to stay if they like, but nonetheless encouraged to spread their wings and fly off in triumph...
...attention Ratzinger receives. His staff, which includes some of the church's brightest men, is sensitive to every small sign of pleasure or displeasure -- a subtle glance, a pause, a bland word that has accrued special meaning over years. When he gets to his office, important documents are spread out on the desk, ready for his review. Says an associate: "He hates to be unprepared...