Word: rashes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the recent rash of English translations, versions now available with both Testaments include...
...proposed that Saudi Arabia be permitted to spend its increasing oil revenues by buying into refining and marketing facilities in the U.S., which has always prided itself on exporting capital, technology and management. His idea provoked a dour response from Washington, but it was at least followed by a rash of American humor. Cartoons showed robed Arabs manning Stateside gas pumps and a camel replacing the tiger in the tank...
Detroit's city government is already scraping. A rise in crime is putting added burdens on the police force, while greater demands are being made for social services. Yet the rash of layoffs is expected to carve at least $10 million in city tax revenues out of the municipal budget, and Mayor Coleman A. Young worries that Detroit may have to ask for outside aid. Says he: "Our city's problems are only a harbinger of what the nation will soon be facing...
...essential amino acids-found in milk, meat, fish, beans and nuts-can bring on kwashiorkor, a wasting disease that kills tens of thousands of children each year in Africa, India, Southeast Asia and parts of South America. Kwashiorkor victims, whose tissues are usually swollen with fluid, develop a scaly rash and liver troubles. They are most easily recognized by the characteristic that gave the disease its Ghanaian name of "Red Johnny"; for reasons unknown, their hair turns a coppery color...
Sargent's most important tactic has been to label Dukakis young, inexperienced and rash. Speaking as the "voice of experience," Sargent has been able to poke holes in Dukakis proposals, causing the Democrat to waffle on the issues...