Word: rampant
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...immorality goes, feminist visions of sexual liberation may be threatening to some, but we (like Madonna) find the rampant violence and degradation of women on MTV's airwaves truly repugnant. The images in Whitesnake's "Is This Love?" or Warrant's "Sweet Cherry Pie"--both aired by MTV--are potentially far more threatening to American children than "Justify My Love...
...Panama's woes is the Atlantic Coast city of Colon (pop. 100,000). Once a prosperous port of call for ocean liners, today the country's second largest city seems to harbor only misery. Rotting tenements line the streets, unemployment exceeds 25%, drug use and violent crime are rampant. Deane Hinton, the American ambassador to Panama, first visited Colon in 1938, when it was "a beautiful city." Now, he says, it is "a disaster area...
...genes, or anti-oncogenes, turn the process off. In their normal form, both kinds of genes, working together, enable the body to perform the critical function of replacing dead or defective cells. But slight alterations in the genetic material, whether inherited or caused by environmental insult, can provoke the rampant cell division that leads to cancer...
...empathize with those leaders in the Black community who refuse to confront the serious problems tearing apart America's inner-cities. In the face of rampant crime, drug use and teen pregnancy, many Black leaders simply turn up the rhetoric and make excuses for these social diseases and--most recently--for Marion Barry. In doing so, they seem intent upon driving the Black underclass into further turmoil...
...This was a good arrest," a police representative said, adding that prompt and thorough reporting of the suspicious individuals' behavior helped police track the suspects' activities prior to the arrest. Police said minor theft runs rampant at Harvard, and that successful arrests--such as the one yesterday--are rare...