Word: rampant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This is an incredibly exciting time for music, and we hope the future is full of even more music offered through more legitimate online distribution channels. Yet, the legitimate online marketplace will never fully flourish while piracy is allowed to run rampant. No one is well served—not students, not administrators and especially not fans who love music—when theft is allowed to prevail. And illegal file-sharing is theft, plain and simple...
...Education Ministry says Jong's findings are exaggerated, but officials established a task force this month to combat violence in schools. One indication of how entrenched the gangs have become is that the ministry said it could take up to five years to eradicate them. The problem "is rampant and it's getting more extreme and outlandish," says Yim Jae Yon, a counselor at a youth violence-prevention center in Seoul...
...stand being a part of Solondz’s world, this movie is worth seeing for all its faults. Just remember, that when I asked Solondz, in light of all the unhappiness rampant throughout his films, “What brings you joy?” he refused to answer. Instead, he replied that only “joy is so much more keenly experienced the greater your misery has been… that’s the upside of misery...
...thousand times as fast as any other kind of virus. The mechanism for this reproduction "is one of the biggest effects I've seen in biology," says Haseltine. "It helps explain why AIDS is such a devastating disease and why it can spread so fast." In the process of rampant replication, the AIDS virus destroys its home, the T cell. Thus it is a peculiar feature of this disease that as it progresses, the helper T cells disappear and so does the virus. By then, however, the patient is invariably beyond recovery...
Virtually every day, Soviet newspapers fulminate about rampant U.S. censorship, persecution of dissidents, forced labor, religious discrimination and telephone tapping. Film of homeless Americans sleeping on subway grates and bag ladies foraging through trash cans has become so standard on Soviet TV that at least a few viewers must be convinced that all of New York City consists of such unfortunates. Recalling the concentration camps of the Nazi era, a professor serving as a commentator for one show tells his audience, "The U.S. is going through a prison boom; camps for dissidents are hastily being built there...