Word: rampant
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...this scary was likely to retain its genuine outsider status for quite a while. All the articles included in their brochure warned that a GWAR show would turn my stomach. Mainstream Rolling stone ignored them, while the more clued in Spin thought they were hilarious, pushing mass culture's rampant images of sex and violence to an absolutely nauseating hilt. Their album was called America Must Be Destroyed, their forthcoming video Phallus in wonderland...
...Yeltsin or his democratic supporters but in the ambivalence about the West that still seems endemic to many Russians. Admiration has historically been tinged with resentment of Western arrogance and conquest in the past (Napoleon and Hitler) and with misgivings about the West's spiritual values. Freedom, democracy and rampant market economics seem palpably Western; but so do political anarchy, street crime and the Mafia. Underlying doubts about the supposed social advantages of a Western-style way of life are shared by a wide audience. In June 1991 virulent Russian nationalist candidate ! Vladimir Zhirinovsky, campaigning for cheaper vodka...
...statement, backed by U.S. Surgeon General Antonia Novello, the American Medical Association last week declared that domestic violence against women is a true epidemic, one that requires response from health officials. According to new A.M.A. guidelines, physicians should routinely screen female patients for incidents of abuse. "Domestic violence is rampant, and doctors are part of the problem," says Novello. "We have to retrain some of us to believe that domestic violence with a fist is as important as violence with...
...principal source of the rampant indifference is that nobody expects the June 23 voting to really change anything. For some time, the opposition Labor Party has been running well ahead of Shamir's Likud in the polls; the latest surveys give the parties, respectively, 42 and 33 places in the 120-seat Knesset. But because neither organization has anything close to a majority, some kind of coalition is inevitable, as has always been the case in Israeli elections. And when the big two parties are grouped with their natural alignment partners, they are running neck and neck...
...storage, says Mahathir, why don't the rich, CO2-creating countries pay for the service of preserving those forests, instead of hectoring the poor countries not to utilize one of their few natural resources? Mahathir, of course, is not exactly a disinterested party; his country has been charged with rampant overlogging in peninsular Malaysia and Borneo...