Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...martial law and a military junta led by armed-forces chief General Wiranto or to a more progressive coalition of opposition figures, like Megawati Sukarnoputri, Abdurrahman Wahid and Amien Rais. What's certain is that the contest over reform has been radicalized. "The idea of revolutionary change has spread among the students," says a Western diplomat. "Now they shout revolusi rather than reformasi...
...poverty and despair spread, the ranks of those with nothing to lose will probably swell to dangerous proportions. "People are playing parlor games here in Jakarta. No one is really speaking for the people out there," says the Western diplomat. "This is going to be the Jacobin revolution that we haven't seen yet. This is the dangerous part. It's going to be bloody...
...rodizio, (Portugese for "rotation") the unique Brazilian barbecue banquet. Here's how it works: waiters go around from table to table brandishing gigantic skewers of different kinds of barbecued meat. They slice you as much you want and keep coming until you beg surrender. There is also a buffet spread of traditional Brazilian dishes and dessert which is included in the rodizio but can also be ordered separately at a lesser price. You can also order individual appetizers and entrees on the menu, but for hard core carnivores, there is no question that it'll be the rodizio...
...restaurant is not that big, with maybe a dozen or so tables, but it took quite a while for the first skewer-wielding waiter to come to our table. So we decided to make a foray to the buffet spread instead. There were salad items on one end and dining hallstyle vats of unidentified soupy stuff on the other. No sign of labels. Rather inconvenient for the uninitiated. But with a bit of gastronomic guesswork I was able to match most of the dishes with the items listed on the menu. The star of the spread was definitely the Beef...
Folkman has long theorized that haltingangiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels,could stop tumors' spread...