Word: rampant
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...true Islam has shown me that a blanker indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against Blacks. Yes, I have been convinced that some American whites do want to help cure the rampant racism which is on the path to destroying this country...
...startling that the Government would pay $91 for a screw that normally costs 3?. But it is even more startling that the Government would pay $320,000 for a four-month study that concludes that rampant hunger does not exist in the U.S. I am more willing to pay the $91 for the 3? screw. At least I get something for my money...
...robbery squad: 'The word is out on the street, in jail, among junkies: 'Hey, man, if you're hurting, go to the bank.' " Even as bank robberies are generally declining in the U.S. (down 11% during the first half of 1983), they are growing more rampant in Los Angeles (up 18% last year). The Friday before Christmas set a new daily record: 21 banks robbed...
...conclusion been so inconclusive. After a four-month, $320,000 probe into the extent of hunger in the U.S., the 13-member President's Task Force on Food Assistance produced a report last week that wound up by saying, "We have not been able to substantiate allegations of rampant hunger." Though the study acknowledged that some were going hungry, it insisted there was no way to determine who and how many...
...retain power, even though he was overwhehningly re-elected last August, highlighted the pattern of failure that has plagued black Africa in the quarter-century since most of its nations became independent. The problems of Nigeria are, by and large, those that afflict the entire continent: abject poverty, rampant corruption, gross mismanagement, tribal enmity, uncontrolled population growth. If, in spite of its assets, Nigeria cannot break out of the vicious cycle of political instability and economic decline, the prospects for most of the continent's other countries appear all the bleaker (see following story...