Word: rashes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rash of comments and no-comments erupted over the new Bob Woodward-Carl Bernstein book on Watergate, The Final Days. After TIME summarized the book's highlights in last week's issue (March 29), the New York Daily News and the Associated Press produced similar stories. At week's end, Newsweek, which is printing excerpts from the volume, released large sections of it. Finally, the Washington Post printed its own summary of the book's main disclosures...
...example, he wants to decrease larcenies by 10 percent within the next few months. He claims that many larcenies are committed by Harvard employees. "Because of the hours that some crimes are committed, I'd say quite a few thefts are by Harvard people," he says. "We had a rash of thefts in one area and two employees were proven responsible. They were terminated." Murphy also blames Harvard employees for setting off alarms in the doors and windows of University buildings. "Most of the false alarms we get are caused by employee carelessness," he says...
...first, that seems like a rash statement, taking into account New Hampshire's record and thinking back to a Crimson victory over Brown and a tie with Cornell. But Brown has won 11 straight since a mid-season slump, and Lynah Rink is the last place the team wants to play in after its reception last month...
Leslie E. Thomas, manager of utilities for Buildings and Grounds, blamed the current rash of mechanical failures on the added strain of the Christmas shutdown and the new conservation measures that have reduced dormitory room temperatures to 65 degrees at night...
...special assistant to President Bok and the architect of Harvard's affirmative action plan, however, has a list of 30 complaints pending or recently concluded. Edward W. Powers, director of Employee Relations, says there have been about 40 such complaints in recent years, which he says amounts to a "rash" of cases. There isn't much to suggest that the MCAD is hiding the others, but there is a great deal to suggest that the severe budget cuts and charges of incompetence that have plagued the MCAD staff lately may account for the discrepancies...