Word: rampant
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...counter by saying that the Internal Revenue Service will have to set up a completely new bureaucratic network to administer the tax credits and collect much of the same data that the Office of Health. Education and Welfare already monitors. HEW, however, has come under fire recently for permitting rampant fraud and abuse of some of its financial aid programs...
Nobody, it would appear, is immune to the rampant violence that has given rise to a siege mentality among the Italian people. Not only are bankers, captains of industry and politicians subject to abduction and killing, but virtually anybody suspected of being even comfortably "borghese" has become a possible target, as evidenced by the recent series of attacks on conservative newspaper editors and middle-level civil servants...
Perhaps Andrew Multer enjoys wallowing in his mudhole of American inertia, but I do not. I see "the leading indicators of plasticity, stupidity, and rampant escapism," and I see that pessimism has become fashionable, but I do not reach "the inescapable conclusion" that "this country is dying...
...hackneyed and generally odious. The '60s, if nothing else, were a dynamic, essential turning point, of which the '70s are the antithesis. Then there is the "lobotomization of America" argument, which points to television and pre-professionalism and People Magazine as the leading indicators of plasticity, stupidity and rampant escapism. Armchair (and journalistic) philosophers can rant forever, yet still achieve nothing by this course. No one dares come to the inescapable conclusion: This country is dying, slowly, and there's very little that anyone will be able to do about it in the near future. Perhaps it's a case...
Many of Zaïre's problems, such as the general incompetence of the government, stem from the fact that the country was so grossly unprepared for the independence it was suddenly granted by the Belgians in 1960. But other problems, as for example the rampant corruption at every level, have grown worse during the twelve-year rule of President Mobutu. Says a ranking Western diplomat in Kinshasa: "We really question whether we are negotiating with people who are serious. We wonder how many of those around Mobutu are concerned with anything other than filling their pockets and making...