Word: spread
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...budding economic energy has spread even further north. Six thousand people a day cross the Chinese border at Dong Dang. Going into China, they take mostly local foodstuffs; returning, they bring Chinese machine tools and kitchenwares carried on their backs, the heavy packages balanced at either end of a bamboo pole. The goods are modern, but silhouetted against the sky, the endless stream of peasants, workers and merchants is a scene from timeless Asia...
...doom scenario of what lay ahead for the breakaway Baltic republic in the aftermath of President Mikhail Gorbachev's decision to cut back drastically on oil and gas shipments. "Understand me correctly," said Brazauskas, leaning on the blond wood lectern. "I have never tried to frighten anyone or spread panic. We have to speak about things as they...
...just as Cold War consciousness told Americans that they were responsible for fighting the spread of communism around the world, the ever-strengthening environmental movement calls on them to stop ecological destruction beyond the shores of the United States...
...When Quayle entered the Senate, it was as the beneficiary of a conservative political-action- committee blitz that knocked off five liberal Senators that year (including his opponent, Birch Bayh of Indiana). Quayle's whole (short) adult life was spent cocooned in the modern conservative movement. He should have spread his butterfly wings as an ideologue, yet he came out talking compromise. That is the most striking thing about his intellectual formation...
Such Holy Week tribulations underscored the long-range fears of many Middle Eastern Christians that their religion may be headed for eventual extinction in the very lands that were Christianity's cradle. Originating on the eastern rim of the Mediterranean nearly 2,000 years ago, the newborn faith spread rapidly to Syria, and thence the apostle Paul took it to his native land, present-day Turkey. Others went southward to Egypt, making Alexandria the first center of Christian culture long before Rome and Constantinople. The rise of Islam beginning in the 7th century ultimately made that faith predominant...