Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stain of corruption has spread so wide that Clean Hands prosecutors cannot keep up with it. Former Christian Democrat leader Arnaldo Forlani last week compared the endless arrests to "the barbarization of the system that leaves nothing and no one." In this case though, it is the barbarians inside the gates who have to be feared...
...promise would not only mandate two years of Head Start for those most in need but also award schoolchildren in the lower grades a larger chunk of the $6 billion annually authorized under Chapter 1, the nation's primary source of federal funds for education. Those dollars are currently spread thinly in a pork-barrel scheme that reaches 90% of all congressional districts -- the price for the political support required to keep Chapter 1 alive. "Unless you conceive of Head Start and Chapter 1 together and target the money at the most disadvantaged," says Zigler, "we'll never have...
...group explained the use of condoms in the prevention of the spread of AIDS, the Mission Hill children nodded knowingly. A question about lubricant was answered unabashedly by a sixth-grader who cautioned his peers not to use oil based substances "like Crisco or Vaseline...
...everything from electricity to gasoline will be paid at the wholesale level by distributors. But the pass-along costs will hit everyone. The tax is based on the heat-producing capacity of most fuels, as measured in British thermal units. In choosing this kind of tax, Clinton sought to spread the burden over all energy users and all regions of the country...
...excluded? Notwithstanding Reiter's almost laughable claims that "routine contact between [the carriers] and the uninfected community will certainly include sexual activity" and that "intravenous drugs may well become another regular medium of interaction," (italics mine) it is well established that casual contact between persons cannot facilitate the spread of the AIDS virus. In fact, if all unmarried couples just practiced abstention, the favorite Reagan-Bush prescription for the AIDS crisis, these immigrants would pose no problem whatsoever...