Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since the publication of that essay -- or editorial or sermon -- the phrase has echoed down the decades. It was often questioned, ridiculed, attacked. When the Soviet Union emerged as a nuclear power, when communism spread across the map, when the U.S. was ignominiously defeated in Vietnam, many people decided that it could not really be the American Century, after all. But it was. The remaining decade is not likely to change that...
Though the Education Department has yet to find the widespread discrimination expected by several Asian-American lobby groups, there is speculation that the inquiry into discriminatory admissions practices may spread to other universities...
...anyone for a donation for a Class Gift. I know that you have better things to do with your money than give it to Harvard; with me as Class Marshal you won't even have to defend the morality as your cheapness by linking Harvard's investments with the spread of acne in the Third World...
...Duke. "His appeal can be reproduced wherever a white middle class is close to a black high-crime area. Duke practices what I think of as cocaine politics. Like cocaine, his appeal is easily transported, easily concealed and highly addictive." There are rumblings around the nation that show the spread has already begun. Though Lee Atwater was quick to dissociate the national party from Duke, many Republicans feel that opposition to affirmative action and set-asides is a stand too rewarding to be renounced...
...budget negotiators remain far apart over who should bear the burden of politically explosive cuts in entitlement spending. Though both sides are willing to slash $73 billion from Medicare over the next five years, the agreement ends there. The White House would spread the pain equally among doctors, hospitals and patients, but the Democrats have avoided specific proposals...