Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tutu said he sensed the Board was committed to the South African investment issue, given the wide-spread enthusiasm over recent decisions to legalize anti-apartheid groups in that country...
Soon Beck's celebrity spread beyond the financial community. He made a cameo appearance in Oliver Stone's film Wall Street and became chums with megastar Michael Douglas...
...role models and a sense of continuity. When the rumors involve living people, however, discussion about who is "in the closet" has generally been held to a discreet murmur -- partly in deference to libel laws but mostly in defense of privacy. That consensus is fast breaking down with the spread of a phenomenon known as "outing," the intentional exposure of secret gays by other gays...
...separate channel, or band, from the call signal itself, AT&T has been able to reduce the time between dialing and ringing from as much as 20 seconds to as little as four seconds. But the refinement inadvertently made the system more prone to breakdowns. Last week's glitch spread rapidly among the 114 computers in AT&T's network in part because they all contained the same programming error...
Frustrated by the slow pace of civil rights and the relentless spread of AIDS, activists adopt a fierce tactic to expose closeted gay politicians and clergy who obstruct the movement...