Word: spread
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...most overpowering impression in the Vale these days is the utter alienation of Kashmiri Muslims. Anti-Indian sentiment has spread from the angry young men of the J.K.L.F. and the twelve other rebel organizations to the businessmen and bureaucrats who might be expected to support the status quo. The best recruiter for the rebels is the curfew, which the government has imposed off and on since December. In April the curfew lasted 17 days straight. It was intended to keep 1.5 million Kashmiris in place while heavily armed troops carried out house-to-house, room-to-room, closet-to-closet...
...into the back to bounce on the mattress until her father pulled off the road near the reservoir and joined them. Eileen got into the front passenger seat; when she looked back she saw her father holding Susan's hands above her head, "on top of her, her legs spread apart . . . with pelvis against pelvis . . . and Susan saying, 'Stop...
...saddled with hastily made loans that went sour in the go-go '80s, many lenders are reluctant to grant credit even to borrowers who present few risks. While the squeeze has so far been greatest in New England and neighboring states, economists are worried that it could swiftly spread. In a report issued two weeks ago, the Federal Reserve Board noted that 80% of the U.S. banks it surveyed said they had tightened their standards on loans for office buildings. A majority of the banks also said they had cut back their lending to small and medium-size companies...
...fallout has spread across the U.S. Michael Foreman, president of a small Atlanta development firm, has vainly hunted for a year for financing to build suburban homes. Says he: "The banks are not only stingy with their loan money; they are downright unreasonable. I have got no cooperation whatsoever...
...carnage also showed that the entire region is growing dangerously impatient with the political stalemate. The shock wave spread to Jordan, where a Palestinian attacked a busload of tourists, wounding ten, and four Palestinians died after thousands took to the streets in the worst rioting since April 1989, threatening King Hussein's grip on the troubled kingdom. In Egypt, President Hosni Mubarak warned that settlement of Soviet Jews in the disputed territories threatened "to put the whole region on the verge of a new bloody confrontation...