Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Already some movement is apparent. Industrial production has increased slightly, and construction contracts and auto sales are up. Unemployment, though, continues to grow, and last week, by one estimate, reached an explosive 1 million, touching off a rash of strikes by angry workers at post offices, subways and electric utilities. Riot cops were called to sweep Air France employees out of ground facilities at the Paris airports, where they were staging a sit-in strike. Giscard's policy has also spurred consumer-price inflation, which inched up to an annual rate of 9.4% in September, almost a percentage point...
Acts of terrorism may be isolated, but sometimes they add up to an epidemic of violence. Last week assorted rebels were responsible for one sensational bombing and a rash of murders and kidnapings. Items...
...petition describes the current precautions, "which consist of one student who sits near the entry from 6 p.m. until midnight" as inadequate, citing a rash of burglaries, assaults and attempted crimes in Claverly...
...free nation, even where the problem of political dissidence is serious, are handguns as readily obtainable as in the U.S.-one explanation for the relatively lax security arrangements of many nations. Regulations of ownership and licensing tend to be strict. In four of the largest democratic nations, defenses against rash acts of violence vary...
This year's rash of teacher strikes differs from those of previous years in quality as well as quantity. Through the late 1960s and early 1970s, when municipal unions of all kinds began to discover and use their considerable bargaining muscle, the teachers' unions had three goals: more pay, more benefits, more control over the operation of the schools. This year, with municipal budgets gutted by inflation and falling tax revenues, some teachers are still reaching for more but many are struggling just to hang on to what they have...