Word: rashes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opportunity for the government to take control of a major auto corporation, which could be used to keep the other companies honest. Some, like Sen. Don Riegle (D-Mich.), who has more than 85,000 constituents employed by Chrysler, were just plainworried by the prospect of a rash of plant closings...
Ojjeh's rash of sales started rumors that he was in financial disfavor with the Saudi royal family. Their patronage is crucial to the Syrian-born Ojjeh, whose checkered career includes a Sorbonne degree in philosophy and two convictions on French smuggling raps. In recent years he has made millions as an arms procurer and builder of military bases in Saudi Arabia. Ojjeh's spokesman dismissed the reports as nonsense, and at week's end he was said to be negotiating a $293 million deal to buy aircraft from Dassault-Breguet, the French planemaker, presumably on behalf...
...said the rash of resignations would not affect DRI's business of providing economic forecasting services to business and government...
...since a federal judge had struck down President Carter's threat to withhold Government contracts from firms that breached his wage-price guidelines. The loss of the procurement sanction undercuts management's ability to resist granting powerful unions, already contemptuous of the guidelines, fat pay raises. A rash of big settlements for organized labor could also pull up wages for many nonunion workers, who are close to 60% of the work force, and put an even faster spin on the price spiral...
Some doctors are afraid that easy access by patients to their records may bring a rash of malpractice suits, but the American Medical Association discounts such fears. Strongly supporting congressional action, many consumer groups and pro fessional organizations like the American Medical Record Association are convinced that without a new law medical privacy stands in mortal jeopardy. In a decision that could have legal repercussions elsewhere, the Colorado Supreme Court in April tossed out indictments against two insurance companies that hired a Denver detective agency that allegedly trained employees to impersonate doctors and bribed hospital personnel to obtain medical records...