Word: spread
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...said, "for kids around this country that love baseball as much as I do." Forget the kids, Mr. President. Nolan Ryan's never ending glory is inspiration for the geezers, for those folks of a certain age whose hairlines are ebbing (like Ryan's, bless him) while their waistlines spread. When the pitcher appears on TV in an Advil commercial and drawls, "Ah feel ready to go another nahn innin's," all of middle-aged America cheers him on. What man in his 40s would not like to look in the mirror and find Nolan Ryan...
...confrontation will be replaced by North-South hostilities, which is to say a rising conflict between the haves and the have-nots. Islam is a religion that has appeal for the deprived. Moreover, although Tehran has yet to successfully export its revolution, the determination of Iran's fundamentalists to spread their radical brand of Islam raises the specter of subversion throughout the region...
...Spread throughout the jungles that straddle Burma and Thailand, the rebels have settled into a life of well-ordered predictability. They subsist on teak logging and farming, attend church, send their children to school and adhere to a strict penal code (adultery carries the death penalty). Though there is no electricity at Manerplaw headquarters, a generator supplies power for that most prized necessity, a VCR. The leaders tend to be melancholy idealists, sad-eyed dreamers who pass evenings drafting and redrafting a Karen constitution for use in the improbable event that independence will be achieved. Gentle in gesture and speech...
...private homes. The day before last week's election, officials unexpectedly lifted martial law, which had been in effect since September 1988, in parts of the country, but the campaign of intimidation continued. Security officers reportedly conducted random searches of houses, and in the eastern state of Shan reports spread of men being dragooned into the army to carry munitions into rebel-occupied areas...
...stock market during the past month. Last week the Dow Jones average broke the 2900 barrier for the first time, climbing 80 points and closing at 2900.97. All told, the Dow has risen 244 points since May 1 and has set record highs eleven times. The euphoria has spread far beyond the blue-chip Dow. The more broadly based Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 2.4% last week, to close at a record...