Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...regional downturn quickly spread to the housing market. The median price of homes in the New York City area fell from $190,000 in the third quarter of 1988 to $182,600 in the same period last year. In Connecticut so many condominiums are on the block that the state is setting up a program to acquire 500 units at bargain prices and rent or sell them to low- and moderate-income families...
...virus quickly spread through the UNIXoperating system, eventually hooking up toInternet, a nation-wide communications network.Computer systems at many research institutionswere subsequently afflicted, including the ones atHarvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT), Boston University and the NationalAeronautics and Space Administration's AmesResearch Center in California...
...centuries, magnificent elm trees graced the streets of American towns and cities, providing shade for all and inspiration for such writers as Eugene O'Neill (Desire Under the Elms). But since the 1930s, Dutch elm disease, spread by a pest called the elm bark beetle, has wiped out more than 100 million of the leafy giants. Now elms may be poised for a welcome return...
...available force" to clear the streets, but Egon Krenz, then in charge of security, persuaded him to rescind the order. Each week the Monday demonstrations grew, to 200,000 on Oct. 23, to 480,000 on Nov. 6. The marches, always peaceful and sober, increasingly impressive, spread throughout East Germany...
...dilemma for Gorbachev is acute. On the one hand, he dares not permit violent chaos to spread, nor preside over the breakup of the U.S.S.R. On the other, he knows that resorting to force would probably provoke even greater resistance to Moscow's rule and would certainly spell the end of his liberal reform program as a whole. A crackdown could also revive the cold war and end his plans to transfer resources from the military to the civilian sector...