Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though Davies' mother had a personal experience of Jesus-who talked to her when she was polishing the brass-Davies at first set out to be a lawyer. He switched to his present vocation only after working his way through the philosophical skepticism of the logical positivists rampant at Cambridge University when he was there. He arrived in the U.S. for good in 1952, and has preached in Chicago for 18 years. As a preacher, he tries to translate the Gospel into the idiom of today, so that "the Bible comes alive and the Christian faith is made believable...
...country dweller, I was appalled at the Kemeny report's recommendation [Nov. 5] to build no new nuclear power plants near large population centers. I moved to the country ten years ago to take myself out of the rampant consumer addiction that has created the nuclear industry. And now the recommendation is to build plants near us in the country, near our solar homes and our children...
...correct in your assessment "that a nation's most fundamental social-welfare obligation to its citizens is to defend them against attack." But which attack is more real, a presupposed threat from without, or the threat of cities in decay, rampant inflation, a raging crime rate...
...glare of television lights, after a five-month closed inquiry during which it examined documents and took depositions. For the next four weeks, five of the justices and 13 staff members presented a picture of the California Supreme Court as a place where personal pettiness and inefficiency ran rampant...
...credit to stop speculation from feeding a boom, a step it took last week. In addition, there was no watchdog Securities and Exchange Commission in 1929 (it was set up in 1934). Today the SEC closely polices financial markets to stop inside dealing and fraudulent company reports, which were rampant in the '20s. While a stock market fall is always possible, it is less likely now to ripple through the economy...