Word: spreading
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bhopal's tragedy?dreadful enough?was then compounded. In the two decades since the disaster, the survivors have seen a more insidious venom spread across the town. Without a healthy work force, the economy stagnated as businesses and factories such as Chand's ice-cream factory, which had paid for a five-bedroom house and three servants, closed overnight. Replacing them were an army of quacks, fly-by-night nongovernmental organizations and lawyers. After fighting compensation claims in the courts for five years, Union Carbide paid out $470 million, but victims often received only $500 for injuries...
...Kidnappings like Teh's have spread fear in his fishing village of Kuala Sepetang, which is about 200 km north of Kuala Lumpur. "This is the first time one of our fishermen was taken," says local politician Chua Tiong San. "It's like having a baby snatched from the front room of your house." Chua surveys the scores of wooden boats bobbing on the murky green waters of the Sepetang River. "Now the whole town is too scared to go out to sea," he says sadly. "Look at all the boats tied up when they would normally be working...
...SPREAD THE WEIGHT A couple of smaller bags allow you to distribute the load more evenly than one big one. If you're wearing a backpack, don't sling it over just one shoulder. If you really must carry a duffel bag, switch shoulders early and often...
...West drop its agricultural subsidies, cancel more debt and urge Africa's worst leaders to go. How about something like: "It's Christmastime/ There's no need to block trade/ At Christmastime/ We can buy African and banish farm aid/ And in our world of Western plenty/ We can spread our wealth around/ Throw out Africa's despots/ At Christmastime." Get 1.5 billion people singing along to that, and you could really make a difference in Africa...
...destruction before our troops started moving up the road toward them? I always thought disrupting the enemy's supply chain - especially its weaponry - was a basic strategy of offense. Tim Coney Medford, Oregon, U.S. Building a Language Barrier "French Plays Defense" [Nov. 8], on the fight against the spread of English in France, quoted President Jacques Chirac's statement "Nothing would be worse for humanity than to move toward a situation where we speak only one language." Come on! If that one language were French, Chirac would call it the best thing that could happen. As usual, he thinks that...