One mayor's decision to evacuate a town centre on 31 January spread fear to the surrounding municipalities, where thousands of residents ended up being advised to sleep in their cars or in schools transformed into emergency shelters.
If Honduras becomes the first place to set his idea into motion, the world will be watching, waiting to see whether this ambitious experiment will produce a thriving economic centre whose successes will spread to other parts of the country, or whether it will instead create a new kind of colonialism, in which the Honduran people could be exploited for foreign economic gain.
Officials have been trying to protect the commercial centre of Bangkok after flooding spread to northern districts of the city earlier this month.
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The reputation of the centre's approach has spread.
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As word-spotting systems spread, call-centre training schools have started coaching students in gaming the system so they look good under the additional scrutiny.
The clashes briefly spread to the nearby oil production centre of Kirkuk, where three Turkomen were killed during a protest.
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With Sale on the back foot, the ball was spread down the line and outside centre Jamie Noon fed Williams to score in the corner.
However, the researchers detected the same resistant S. pneumoniae strains in siblings of attendees, suggesting that resistance could easily spread beyond the confines of a centre.
As far as the author is concerned, Mr Clinton epitomises woolly-headed liberalism and arrogant over-confidence in his attempts to put the expansion of democracy and the spread of market economics at the centre of foreign policy.
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As in real showbiz, his reputation spread in ever widening circles from an admiring centre.
Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who has conceded the lower house to Pier Luigi Bersani's centre-left bloc, played down the significance of the spread, and said he was not worried about market reaction to the vote.
His Air Traffic Control report cites a Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation study, which asserted that privatization would transfer and spread risk, while introducing more efficiencies into the system.
In one early example of how this may work, Marco Marra, a researcher at the Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre in Vancouver, last year sequenced the genes from a tumor that had spread from an 80-year-old patient's tongue to his lungs.
Twenty-two stations spread over 18km to connect the southern and western suburbs with the city centre, and reasonably priced tickets start at 1.35 euros.
While the detection of viruses is distributed over the Internet, for example, just as the cells of the immune system are spread throughout the body, there is no biological equivalent of the central analysis centre.
Following its boom days, Santa Teresa fell into neglect, when Rio's favelas (slums) spread onto the nearby hillsides and crime drove the wealthy to southern neighbourhoods far from the city centre.
Poetry Parnassus is part of the South Bank Centre's "Festival of the World, " in turn part of the Cultural Olympiad, designed to spread the Olympic fervor beyond sport to the arts.
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