Word: amok
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were stunned by David B. Lat's vicious blindsiding of VideoPros (Feb. 15, "Rudeness Runs Amok"). Aside from the fact that the piece is riddled with potentially libelous innuendo and free-wheeling "facts," the opinions are not enlightening or newsworthy, and merely reflect one person's vendetta that grew from a temper tantrum...
Landes again cited the Medical Area TotalEnergy Plant (MATEP) as an example of a centraladministration decision run amok. He said MATEPhas cost FAS $500 million...
...part of the comprehensive critique of deteriorating social fabric, the brawls demonstrate warrior instincts run amok. But at the same time, bad guys get wasted in the same manner good guys are attacked. Only the mood is supposed to change from these battles of good versus evil. When we finally see Jake for what he really is we have already been conditioned to like his brand of justice. Suddenly we are forced to cast even his justice in a negative light, and that retroactively...
...Four guys walked in with chickens wrapped in blankets," said Malleis. "It looked like they were going to release them and let them run amok...
Dissatisfaction with the prospects for the regatta weekend runs amok among Harvard students, many of whom are not thrilled about Cambridge's temporary population explosion...