Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...United States has an estimated 10 million to 12 million new cases of STDs annually--the highest rate among industrialized countries worldwide." Of the top 10 diseases reported each year by the Centers for Disease Control, five are STDs: chlamydia, gonorrhea, AIDS, syphilis and hepatitis B. Their rapid spread in the U.S. reveals that STDs are not just a by-product of biological realities, but of social and cultural ones as well. This week's announcement is an indicator that a set of problems once considered private is so widespread that it has become public--as a threat...
...integrate students in the hope that if students were made to live together, they could learn more from one another than they do in classes and in extracurricular clubs. I hate to sound cynical, but it seems to me that, in randomizing the housing, Harvard hoped they could spread out the few minority students on campus to serve as educational representatives for the greater minority population...
...sunrise, the next harvest, the coming winter or the inevitability of death. The more distant future belonged to the realm of religion. The modern concept of the future did not begin to develop until the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, with the gradual consolidation of calendars, the spread of clocks and the stirrings of new forces. Both science and commerce needed to anticipate things, whether a chemical reaction or the expiration of contracts...
During the 1970s, gloom spread, partly as a result of the energy crisis, and growth was demonized. At the end of Jimmy Carter's presidential term a group of federal agencies submitted Global 2000 Report to the President. It was strongly neo-Malthusian, predicting environmental degradation, overpopulation, shrinking resources and vast increases in poverty unless there were technological breakthroughs and international action. The Carter Administration passed the report on to Ronald Reagan, who ignored it. The doomsayers could not have foreseen the collapse of the Soviet Union, the retreat of the welfare state in most parts of the world...
...afternoon traffic, waiting for a drama to conclude. And it does, quickly and bloodily. As hundreds wait and thousands watch at home, connected to the scene by Los Angeles' ubiquitous TV newschoppers, Daniel Jones, 40, a Long Beach maintenance worker, acts out his made-for-TV theatrics. He has spread out a banner for the helicopters to see: HMOS ARE IN IT FOR THE MONEY!! LIVE FREE, LOVE SAFE OR DIE. And then, retreating to his pickup truck, he pets his dog, leaves it in the cab and sets the vehicle on fire. Partly aflame, Jones runs into the highway...