Word: spread
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Popular though it may be with average voters, Williams' campaign has irritated members of the state's Old Guard Republican establishment, who preferred a more conventional nominee. Dismissing his chances, they spread support among Hance, former Secretary of State Jack Rains and Dallas lawyer Tom Luce. But as Williams gained steam, they reluctantly began to jump aboard with campaign contributions...
When her cancer was diagnosed three years ago, Diana Nolan did not need much imagination or prophecy to know what lay ahead. The disease had killed both her parents. Surgeons removed part of her lung, but the cancer spread. Her physician next suggested that she try a potent chemotherapy but warned of the potential side effects -- hair loss, nausea and vomiting. "I wanted a full week to think and pray," she recalls. "I am a person who wants to have a part in the treatment. Let me know what my options are." In the end, she told her doctor...
...active help with a suicide, most patients will have to look elsewhere, well outside the realm of patient care. The spread of AIDS, for instance, has prompted some right-to-die activists to offer support and counseling about pills and occasionally lethal injections to people with the virus. Pierre Ludington, 44, executive director of the American Association of Physicians for Human Rights, has tested HIV-positive: he is stockpiling pills to use when he is ready to go. "I get angry that society wants me to suffer in a hospital," he says. "All I'm doing is feeding its coffers...
...could not consider less than $7 million. Seward grudgingly raised his bids until they reached $7 million. He then found that the Senate, already embroiled in the post-Civil War quarrels that would lead to the impeachment of President Johnson, refused to ratify "Seward's Folly." Only after Stoekl spread substantial sums of money among influential Senators did the legislators suddenly see wisdom in the spectacular bargain...
...Muslim laity. As a result, a network of "parallel" mosques sprang up across the Asian republics, where Muslim believers practiced their religion without official imprimatur. In Uzbekistan an undetermined number of Muslims have joined mystical Sufi sects. In Uzbekistan and Tadzhikistan authorities have recently become concerned about the spread of groups espousing Wahhabism, the puritanical sect of the Sunni branch of Islam that first emerged in Saudi Arabia in the 18th century...