Word: spreading
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Bloom is a major proponent of using current research in crafting health policy decisions to prevent the spread of infectious diseases such as AIDS and tuberculosis...
...tradition continues today and has spread to other schools of public health...
...panic spread. Hardest hit were countries in Latin America. To outsiders, the link seemed strange: nations such as Venezuela and Brazil have very little exposure to Russia, but their economies suffered nonetheless. "Latin markets are right to think that this is a moment of complete irrationality," says Bond Snodgrass, an analyst at Warburg Dillon Read in Mexico City. "But this should finally drive home the point: Mexico is no longer just Mexico, Brazil is no longer just Brazil. They're all part of one asset class now, and investors aren't distinguishing between any of them." And the dramatic drop...
...there, and in three hot June days of 1962, 75,000 Africans were wowed by the most unusual thing they had ever seen and touched. After Glenn's flight this fall, the U.S. government should take another initiative: send this American hero on a world tour to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction. A personal tour by Glenn would spotlight an unpretentious American of character, courage and achievement. MARK LEWIS Chevy Chase...
...storm coming. If he has a place for me, I am ready," which you ascribed to John F. Kennedy [NOTEBOOK, Aug. 3], actually comes from J.G. Holland's Life of Lincoln, published in 1866. Holland claimed that Lincoln, expressing his determination to resist the spread of slavery, told an Illinois educator in the spring of 1860, "I know there is a God, and...I see the storm coming...If he has a place and work for me...I am ready." But William Herndon, Lincoln's law partner, and most scholars doubt that Lincoln ever said anything like that. J.F.K...