Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...husband, she lived in a nearby but more crime-ridden neighborhood. She was waiting tables at a restaurant on Seventh Street, in a busy black commercial section, when she heard about the trouble at 14th and U. A glance at the street confirmed that the violence had already spread. People were breaking windows, and flames leaped from a building not far away. Shaking with fear, Katherine raced to her apartment, where she was horrified to discover that the tavern right next door had been set on fire. As sirens wailed and wisps of tear gas tainted the air, she bundled...
...have only begun what I think should be done, which is spread the name of the Harvard Medical School to the rest of the world." Alpert said in a telephone interview yesterday. "Why medicine? Because it's vital and we're all going to die. The real question is when, not whether...
...This business of every tub on its own bottom really doesn't stand up," Alpert said. "Spread it around, don't try to keep every...
...immune system are destroyed, this reservoir of viruses spills over into the blood. Such a massive behind-the-scenes attack may make it impossible to rid the body of the viruses. The researchers note that these findings underscore once again the importance of prevention in fighting the spread of AIDS...
Those popular guys now find themselves in the middle of an uproar over teenage values that has spread beyond the conservative, middle-class Los Angeles suburb of Lakewood. While denying charges ranging from sexual molestation to rape, the group of 20 to 30 youths has proudly owned up to a competition in which they scored points each time they had a sexual conquest. Their seeming lack of regard for the girls they were scoring upon shocked many Lakewood residents, as did the widespread perception of the boys as heroes and the girls as troublemakers. The debate set men against women...