Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Recalling that in an interview with CNN in May 1996 he had the "audacity to challenge conventional wisdom [by stating] that within two to three years Suharto will be gone," he attributed the ex-president's recent fall on rampant corruption, crony capitalism and on the flawed policies of the Indonesian government...
BONN: Reuniting Germany was Helmut Kohl's greatest triumph; it may also have been his undoing. The voters of the former East Germany, embittered by rampant unemployment and economic stagnation, appear to have tipped the balance in the landmark election Sunday that ousted a sitting chancellor for the first time in modern German history. Gerhard Schroeder, a 56-year-old Social Democrat who had retooled his party along the centrist "Third Way" lines championed by Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, soundly defeated Kohl in the hard-fought election. But he won't find it easy to make good on promises...
...river Houses, where rumors of flooding were rampant over the summer due to unusually heavy rainfall, House storage was relatively safe...
...course, all of this makes for incredibly entertaining gossip among roommates at three in the morning, as well as hours of fun playing the Facebook Game two years later, when you count the number of people you've met on each page. The only problem with the new students' rampant enthusiasm is that it goes completely unchecked. Unlike in the real world, where throwing together 1,600 hundred strangers might create a somewhat suspicious environment (as in a stadium or a public beach or a prison), at college there is no second-guessing...
...they will be confined by state juvenile authorities until they turn 21. But it's worse than it sounds: Johnson's father was horrified at the thought that his boy would be sent to the Alexander juvenile facility, a place where abuse and molestation are said to be rampant...