Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world have interests in the Balkans other than righting moral wrongs and ending genocide. We care about the stability of Europe, and we fear the war, left unchecked, will spread to include Greece and Turkey. We also care about the moral standard that intervention will set for the world. We care that the world sees: "You just can't get away with that...
...Sexual harassment and assault against all women. Just to spread the insult around, he is the Commander of the same military forces that so recently gave us the Tailhook affair. If Powell is really concerned about immoral sexual behavior in the services, perhaps he should worry about the problems caused by overly enthusiastic heterosexuals...
...when did these adventurous souls reach Alaska? What kind of people were they? How fast did they spread down through the Americas? For decades, archaeologists felt sure they knew the answers: the first Americans were skilled hunter-gatherers and toolmakers who arrived about 11,500 years ago and moved rapidly southward, reaching deep into South America within about five centuries as well as helping drive to extinction such prehistoric mammals as mastodons and woolly rhinos...
...wins, Yeltsin promises to take "tough steps" to end Russia's power struggle. The battle has spread beyond the parliament. His rebellious Vice President, Alexander Rutskoi, has launched his own campaign against the reforms, claiming he has "suitcases" of evidence of official corruption. An angered Yeltsin compared his former ally's sense of honor to "a dirty cleaning...
Meanwhile word quickly spread through the compound that "the Assyrians are coming." Koresh garbed himself in black and grabbed an AR-15 rifle. By the time the 91 ATF agents pulled up Double EE Ranch Road, most adults inside the compound were armed. Brandishing a search warrant, an ATF agent approached the open front door. By the ATF's account, a man slammed the door and gunfire erupted from within. Koresh's attorney counters that ATF agents fired first. Either way, the cult's barrage of automatic fire so overwhelmed ATF agents that some never got off a shot...