Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...packaging. Without a doubt, the best production you'll see all year is the marketing magic of Artisan Entertainment, the small studio that suddenly isn't so small anymore. (I also think that Dramamine could have made a fortune by handing out samples at movie theatres to solve the rampant nausea.) But the movie itself was trifling --even though that wickedly clever little ending almost redeems the whole exercise (I like the word "exercise" to describe Blair Witch; it gives it that whole unpolished film-school-final-project kind of feel). The most important lesson of Blair Witch, of course...
...pettiness and prejudice rampant in each annual new member selection meeting. I remember being pressured to give good evaluations to the sister of one Key executive and the best friend of another. Finally, I recall the pillorying of fellow members who were talented yet somehow different and, therefore, weird...
...pretend to have an explanation for the rampant and enduring desire to impose hierarchies on student life. Maybe it's four years of high school, years that many of us treated like a giant scavenger hunt for college application fodder, that trains us to think that way. Maybe we're all just massively insecure...
...with Barak, Arafat was reported to be shaking badly and had great difficulty concentrating," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. "And the fact that he has failed to prepare an heir has the Israelis and Americans very worried." Western governments have tended to turn a blind eye to rampant corruption and authoritarianism in Arafat?s Palestinian Authority, in the belief that he is the sole guarantor of the peace process. But that may turn out to have been a risky gambit as Arafat?s political support among Palestinians declines along with his health...
...become infected. That's better than a short course of costly AZT and requires just one pill for the mother during labor and a few drops for the baby within three days of birth. It should be a boon to the Third World, where mother-infant transmissions keep AIDS rampant...