Word: rashly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from seven months to nine years, from escaping. In New York City two children, ages seven and five, died when a fire broke out in the basement of an unlicensed day-care center whose owner had stepped out for a few minutes just before the flames started. The rash of deaths underscores once more the extent to which an increasing number of parents, through economic hardship or simple irresponsibility, are unable or unwilling to get reliable child care. In many cases, including these two, the social service agencies empowered to prevent such disasters do not react until...
...rash of despicable crime that has plagued St. John the Baptist Church has little to do with Catholicism. It has little to do with religion at all. It has everything to do with hookers, panhandlers and thugs who find an easy target in what was once a safe, open sanctuary...
...Crimson's task is made more difficult by the rash of injuries that has plagued the team...
...rash of on-the-job harassment complaints among Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) security guards has been nothing short of appalling. But recent evidence that Chief Paul Johnson may be sanctioning reprisals against department whistle-blowers is far more ominous. If many security guards' accusations are true, Johnson has been doing everything he can to undermine the new harassment investigation by the General Counsel's office...
...threat of disease is heightened by urban pollution. Brinkmann notes that in industrial countries, as much as 50% of the population will suffer from a rash or other skin disease during the course of a year, compared with maybe 2% in the 1950s. "Is this an indication that pollutants have weakened human immune defenses, leaving city dwellers more vulnerable to otherwise benign diseases?" the epidemiologist asks. Many of the effects of environmental degradation are far from benign. In Upper Silesia, Poland, indiscriminate dumping of toxic wastes has so poisoned the land and water that 10% of the region's newborns...