Word: rashly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overdose. At about the same time in Haiti, millions of dollars' worth of poorly aimed cocaine packages fell upon an isolated farming village. The natives tried to make the mysterious substance into a whitewash for their huts but discovered it worked better as a foot powder and diaper-rash treatment. They began selling it for about $50 a kilogram (actual wholesale value: $30,000 per kg) until police heard about their windfall and carted away what was left of the drug...
...Gerber baby food and fruit juice. Local and federal authorities began trying to confirm the incidents to determine whether any pattern existed. But FDA officials suspected that if glass was indeed found in the Gerber containers, ) it was the result of jars that chipped during shipment rather than a rash of copycat mayhem...
...actual reaction. I was forced to decide whether this reaction was actually superior. The success of an actual Delta Force raid on Beirut was so slim as to be ridiculous. The penalty for failure was also too great. If anything, Delta Force is a demonstration of how dangerous such rash, jingoistic actions can be. Of course, it is also a demonstration of how low the movie industry can sink...
...year, with no warning to the men who used those worm places, or to Leverett students. It took more conscious effort and cost to cover those grates than to simply leave them open. It is evidence of a desire for simple solutions; to connect those men to a rash of thefts in Leverett simply perpetuates a myth about the homeless. If there were complaints, there should have been discussion. But none of this happened, and the grates went...
Ultimately, of course, each merger or takeover or leveraged buyout must be judged on its own merits. There are good mergers, and there are bad ones. The true danger of the current rash of mergers is that it will distract corporations from the real business of business. American firms, facing ever tougher competition both at home and abroad, need to look beyond the short- term search for a merger partner or takeover target and get back to making products and services for tomorrow's customers...