Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Experts are quick to warn that cancer remains a leading killer of humans, and that the survival rate for metastasized tumors--cancers which have spread through the body--is still pitifully...
...much less a Second, and the end of the world is a - concept without meaning. Many mainstream Protestant and Roman Catholic theologians argue that millenarians like Walvoord and Dyer misuse scriptural prophecies about the final days. These are not detail-specific guides to beating some kind of celestial point spread but timeless alerts that humanity must be constantly vigilant against sin's allure. The temptation to seek clues to the Second Coming on CNN is easy to understand, since Saddam has proclaimed himself a successor to Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian King who enslaved the Israelites of old. That makes it deceptively...
...shores and islands are dotted with coral reefs, mangrove swamps and beds of sea grass and algae, brimming with birds, sea turtles, fish and marine mammals. This complex ecosystem, already pushed to the limits of survival by years of pollution, is now threatened with total collapse by the inexorable spread of the smothering, toxic...
...popularity of warranties thus far makes it likely that they will spread into larger districts. Many educators hail that as the precursor to a more sweeping idea: graduation standards based on proven mastery of skills, rather than on course completion...
...Iraqi forces. They are well outfitted with Soviet T-72M tanks, self-propelled 155-mm and 120-mm mortars and long-range guns. They also have Soviet antiaircraft missiles, and can fill the skies with ! antiaircraft flak when attacked. Six of the Guard's nine core divisions are spread in an arc along Kuwait's northern border with Iraq, while one remains in Baghdad to protect Saddam's Baathist government. Their importance to Pentagon planners has been apparent since the second day of the war, when they began absorbing massive air strikes...