Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trouble started with the British pound, which had been weakened by rampant inflation. Denis Healey, financial spokesman for the Labor Party, predicted in a speech in Parliament early last week that the Tory government would devalue the pound in July or August. Currency speculators-mostly commercial bankers and treasurers of multinational corporations-took Healey's forecast as confirmation of their worst fears and began to unload pounds. On a single day, Thursday, about $1.2 billion worth of pounds were sold by speculators. In order to keep the pound's price in other currencies from dropping too sharply, European...
...portents, though, are for an era of more treaties and agreements, more realism and less rampant ideology...
...once, "but if you were born black, you were born in jail." Malcolm would have been pleased, too, with the long lines of white supporters who marched around Mass Hall for seven days. "I have been convinced," he said, "that some American whites do want to help cure the rampant racism which is on path to destroying this country...
Although it confirms widely held convictions about virginity, the Zelnik-Kantner study shatters the generational myth that young people are engaged in a perpetual orgy of promiscuity. In fact, the investigators report, "the picture is not one of rampant sexuality." Most teen-agers do not have sex frequently: 40% had had none at all during the month before they were questioned, and of the remainder, about 70% had had intercourse no more than twice in that month. Moreover, 60% of the non-virgins had made love with only one male in their lives, and half of them were planning...
...cannot deny the importance of the accomplishments of the CIO-UAW campaigns of the thirties. Before these victories, when a worker discussed unionization, he was liable to immediate dismissal from work and a livelihood was precarious struggle subject to the whims of the employer or a rampant economy. Unionization brought job security, a true seniority system, unemployment compensation, severance pay, pensions, and Social Security...