Word: spread
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...borders were clean and it had not spread to her lymph nodes," Weir said...
...immediate danger is posed by a need for physical expansion: new land and new buildings have spread the campus out and run afoul of neighbors on all sides...
...Secretary-General Kofi Annan, a long-standing, vocal proponent of AIDS education, welcomed a $150 million pledge from Vice President Al Gore, who also gave assurances that the U.S. military could be used to help stop the spread of AIDS. Annan warned council members that the disease, which strikes at all levels of society and across age and gender lines, could destroy the social infrastructure of Africa, endangering the basic functioning of many countries. And while delegates from Russia and China voiced doubts that the AIDS epidemic should fall under the aegis of the generally military-minded Security Council, TIME...
...leading producer of the heroin sold in Europe. Despite the Koranic prohibitions against drug use the Taliban has embraced the trade, and taxes on its production keeps their government solvent. Many of the Central Asian republics of the former U.S.S.R. rightly fear that the Taliban will try to spread its influence into their Muslim populations...
...nuclear capability emanating from Iran constitutes the most serious threat to Israeli security. Countering the Iranian threat requires that the Israel Defense Force (IDF) transform its conventional military doctrine into one based on high-tech warfare. However, the IDF is constrained from doing so because its resources are spread thin coping with multiple threats. Currently, the IDF must plan contingencies for a conventional Syrian attack, a ballistic war with Iran and urban warfare in the West Bank, all the while fighting a counter-insurgency campaign in south Lebanon and a war on terrorism. Peace with Damascus would spell...