Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...imports by backing the recent fuel efficiency bills in Congress which are part of the clean air package. These laws would raise average mileage to 40 miles per gallon, a technologically simple and inexpensive measure (many cars already get better gas mileage). With the use of airbags and the spread of seatbelt laws, fuel-efficient cars do not have to be unsafe cars...
...specter of war, rapacious oil prices and a far-reaching recession haunts political and business leaders everywhere. After a record eight-year peacetime expansion, the U.S. is in the midst of a slump that could swiftly spread to America's trading partners. Japanese investors have lost nearly $2 trillion of wealth as shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange declined more than 40% since last December. The stunned Japanese are paring back their lending just as Eastern Europe and Third World nations desperately seek cash to pay runaway oil bills...
...large extent, Luce pointed out, it already was the American Century, because of the influence of American culture and products. But more was required: the spread of free enterprise, because it could not prevail in America "if it prevails nowhere else," and of freedom, because "without Freedom, there can be no abundant life, but with Freedom, there...
...hungry and destitute." But such efforts will fail unless animated by American ideals -- love of freedom, equality of opportunity, self-reliance but also cooperation, together with "all the great principles of Western civilization" -- justice, truth, charity. "It now becomes our time to be the powerhouse from which the ideals spread . . . and do their mysterious work of lifting the life of mankind from the level of the beasts to what the psalmist called a little lower than the angels." Other nations can "survive," but America can endure only if its veins are filled with "the blood of purpose and enterprise...
When Singh announced the quota system, he told Parliament, "This is a momentous decision of social justice." But 22.5% of federal jobs are already reserved for members of tribes and untouchables, and high-caste students fear they will be squeezed out of the job market. As protests spread, Singh said in a speech that he would not "dilute" his plan. Meanwhile, 24 towns and cities were placed under curfew...