Word: rashly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...football and debating and got a job at a local radio station. He never studied voice or diction, and during a stint at Southeast Missouri State University he flunked Speech 101, because he did not outline his speeches. And for the next decade, his career sounded more like crr-rash! He was fired from four Pennsylvania and Missouri radio stations and, after a five-year stint, from the marketing department of the Kansas City Royals. Not until he replaced Morton Downey Jr. on a Sacramento, California, station in 1984 did he come close to success. "Up until then," he says...
...nationwide rash of telephone fraud has struck Harvard, running up phone bills--and headaches--for administrative offices all over the University, the Office of Information Technology (OIT) said yesterday...
...After a rash of negative media publicity over two recent stabbings, Cambridge Rindge and Latin students insist they've gotten...
Perhaps the most successful awareness campaign has been conducted by the Lyme Borreliosis Foundation. In 1988 Lyme disease was scarcely known even in the area around Lyme, Connecticut. Karen Forschner, who had the Lyme-disease symptom of a bull's-eye rash during pregnancy, started the foundation with her husband Tom shortly after the birth of their only child, a son who was finally diagnosed with the disease. "Using the media is definitely a part of our strategy," says Tom Forschner. The husband-and-wife team has captured the attention of all the daytime talk shows and most newspapers...
...chain reaction" may have been set off, Burton says, once the town started getting publicity for its rash of arson cases. "Some of the street gangs are talking, and other street gangs say, 'we can do a better one,''' Burton says...