Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, the festive atmosphere never spread through the whole building. (Are there any acoustic experts out there who can explain how a house packed with 3,125 fans could remain that quiet?) Then again, maybe it was just the adults who needed rest because the kids--and there were lots of them, mostly wearing youth hockey jackets, in attendance--had loads...
...changing the terms of reference is tomorrow's problem. To push far- reaching reforms like an overhaul of the nation's health-care system, and to ensure that any temporary fiscal stimulus is inextricably tied to a long- term deficit-reduction scheme, Clinton had to decide how exactly to spread the bad news he got at Blair House. He had already become famous for downplaying whatever encouraging economic statistics have come along, and he followed suit within hours of Blair House. But he knew the mega-message would be better received if it were broached first by a third party...
...operation slowly got under way, the 3,000 U.S. troops found themselves spread thin, trying to answer a host of competing demands. Most of the capital's armed thugs crept away, but soldiers had yet to impose more than a veneer of security. On Saturday, U.S. combat helicopters destroyed three armed Somali vehicles that had opened fire on the American gunship. Relief workers groused about poor communications and stalled food shipments; more urgent were the calls for help from Good Samaritans trapped in their compounds in outlying towns where marauding gunmen were still stealing, fighting and killing. Somali clan leaders...
...been ill defined, leaving ample room for misunderstanding. When a group of heavily armed Marines disgorged from an amphibious assault vehicle stenciled with the name BRAT PACK and tried to secure an airfield hangar, they baffled non-English-speaking Somalis with orders to "Get down on your knees!" and "Spread your arms!" At least one Somali found the treatment inexplicably rude, given that the men were unarmed. "If you are a human being, it's not good for you to be lying on the ground," he said. "I would like to entertain these foreigners with open arms, but I very...
Fine said he believed the charges were spread by opponents who wanted to hurt his election chances...