Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doesn't, but for years the acrimonious debate over how to protect heroin users has impeded efforts by health authorities to control the spread of AIDS. Civic leaders have been caught up in moralistic arguments over whether providing clean needles to addicts would only accelerate inner-city drug abuse. In minority communities, opponents insisted that needle handouts were akin to genocide. Meanwhile, AIDS raced through intravenous-drug-using populations. Today one-third of the nation's AIDS cases originate from IV drug use. More specifically, 71% of all females with AIDS are linked directly or indirectly to IV drug...
...nationwide craze over the candidacy of Taxes billionaire H. Ross Perot has spread to the Boston area, but several Harvard students involved in his volunteer network have become disillusioned with the candidate...
...This year, we're trying to really spread the word," she said...
Clark and Gaffney leave the talking to Leary. In a crowd, the Mather roommates don't immediately get noticed like Leary does, unless that crowd is spread over an acre and a half of grass, armed with sticks and chasing a ball...
Johnson retired from the Los Angeles Lakers after 12 years when he tested positive for the HIV virus. He has since devoted much of his time to educational efforts to combat the spread of the disease...