Word: rashly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scientists. The disease, which reached its peak in 1980, when 890 cases were reported, occurred primarily in menstruating women, though men and children could also be affected. Toxic shock could strike with appalling speed, progressing in a matter of hours from fever and dizziness to a strange, sunburn-like rash and a drop in blood pressure so severe that the victim might go into shock. For about 4% of patients, TSS proved fatal. Scientists quickly linked the disease to the use of tampons, particularly the "superabsorbent" variety, but the reasons for the tampon connection remained obscure. Last week a team...
Another major concern of law-enforcement officials is the surge of insider trading, in which company executives or employees use confidential information to help themselves or friends make killings in the stock market. In particular, the recent rash of mergers and acquisitions has created golden opportunities for investors who are tipped off to the deals ahead of time. Perhaps the most notorious episode involved Paul Thayer, the former businessman who became Deputy Secretary of Defense under President Reagan. While chairman of LTV and a member of the boards of Anheuser-Busch and Allied, Thayer passed to friends information about acquisitions...
Besides causing untold anxiety for parents, the rash of child-abuse accusations against day-care centers during the past year is having a financial side effect. Insurance companies, which anticipate a wave of costly lawsuits from victims, have started drastically boosting the premiums they charge day-care centers. A neighborhood facility in San Antonio, for example, was abruptly informed by its insurance company earlier this year that the center's $600-a-year policy would be canceled. When the center took out insurance from another company, it cost...
...worst terrorist onslaught in any single day since India became independent 38 years ago. Within hours after the first bomb exploded, police blamed the rash of attacks on terrorists belonging to India's Sikh minority, which for the past three years has been agitating for greater autonomy. Sikh terrorists had last, and most spectacularly, struck in New Delhi on Oct. 31, 1984, when two bodyguards, both Sikhs, assassinated Prime Minister Indira Gandhi as she was walking from her residence to a television interview in her garden. Now, declared Home Minister S.B. Chavan, "a coordinated, well- planned operation has been launched...
...addict, Scott R. Panzer '88, who owns what he calls a "I rash-80," said that he outgrew the video games habit in eleventh grade. "Before I was a social misfit," he said. "As I started to have a better time sociality, I stopped using the computer...