Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really good for the sport to have a Western team," sophomore Chip Linehan said. "It helps to spread the sport...
...repressed politically, but their sexual behavior has undergone a sweeping liberation. The past decade of economic and social reform spawned a new permissiveness that was not suppressed by the soldiers sent to occupy Tiananmen Square. For the first time, Chinese sociologists have conducted extensive surveys to document the spread of the sexual revolution in the world's most populous nation. Their main conclusions: like most other populations, the Chinese are having more sex outside marriage and are becoming increasingly adventurous in the ways they make love...
...Police and niggers, that's right, get outta my way./ Don't need to buy none of your gold chains today . . ./ Immigrants and faggots, they make no sense to me./ They come to our country and think they'll do as they please,/ Like start some mini-Iran, or spread some f disease./ They talk so many goddam ways, it's all Greek...
...budding economic energy has spread even further north. Six thousand people a day cross the Chinese border at Dong Dang. Going into China, they take mostly local foodstuffs; returning, they bring Chinese machine tools and kitchenwares carried on their backs, the heavy packages balanced at either end of a bamboo pole. The goods are modern, but silhouetted against the sky, the endless stream of peasants, workers and merchants is a scene from timeless Asia...
...doom scenario of what lay ahead for the breakaway Baltic republic in the aftermath of President Mikhail Gorbachev's decision to cut back drastically on oil and gas shipments. "Understand me correctly," said Brazauskas, leaning on the blond wood lectern. "I have never tried to frighten anyone or spread panic. We have to speak about things as they...