Word: rashly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Normally, any Republican candidate for Governor in the resolutely Democratic state of Rhode Island would be considered rash even to run. But Edward DiPrete, the stolid two-term G.O.P. mayor of Cranston, R.I., is facing extraordinary circumstances. An unusually bitter Democratic primary has split his opposition, while statewide disillusionment with government may have opened a door for long-frustrated Republicans. For the first time in 16 years, the G.O.P. has a shot at the statehouse...
...NOTEBOOK: This is the first Harvard trip to Columbia in three years...Next year's game will also be played in New York...Restic has taken five sophomore running backs to New York because of the recent rash of injuries to the offensive backfield...
...peace workers." Says Federal District Judge Marvin Shoob, who last year ruled in favor of an A.C.L.U. challenge to religious meetings that were being held in a suburban Atlanta junior high school: "The bill will create more problems than it solves. I expect to see a rash of lawsuits...
...example, have not kept up, forcing career soldiers to leave for civilian life. The real (i.e., inflationadjusted) salaries of civil servants have dropped by 14% in the past seven months, causing strikes or slowdowns that have hampered services ranging from mail deliveries to issuing passports. The government averted another rash of strikes by agreeing on a two-year contract with public workers last week. Nonetheless, some unions rejected the proposed 15% wage hike and may still walk out before election...
Until quite recently, researchers had felt no particular urgency for immunization. The disease had long been regarded as a benign malady, and although it tends to hit adults more severely than children, most people seemed to suffer through the rash, high fever, sore throat and painful joints without ill effect. But increasingly, doctors have realized that varicella contains a variety of hidden threats. Among them: bacterial infections of the skin, pneumonia, encephalitis and the severe brain disorder known as Reye's syndrome. It can also be life-threatening to children taking immune-suppressing anticancer drugs. According to Government estimates...