Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally at 2:30 a.m., the Committee voted, 4-2, with one abstention, not to renew Frisoli's contract as Superintendent. This decision provoked a rash of small fires, false alarms and bomb scares in the Cambridge public schools the following day. Frisoli's supporters vowed that they would take the issue to the people in a referendum. Although "Citizens for Frisoli" gathered 12,396 signatures--more than the 12 per cent of eligible voters necessary to make the School Committee reconsider its decision--the Committee again voted to oust Frisoli, by a vote of 4-3, and the City...
...Wouldn't it be just as well if candidates used radio and television to express their ideas rather than direct contact with the public for a few years until this rash of unrest passes...
...however, no one contemplated a third threat: that terrorists would stow their weapons aboard for action on the ground. Just as new fences appeared at U.S. airports following a rash of bombs on TWA planes, airlines will try to close this latest security gap with a more extensive baggage search. The question is to what extent passengers will put up with such checks...
Since then, Fidel has evidently begun cutting back the army-and coincidentally there has been a strange rash of burglaries of foreign embassies. The feeling in the diplomatic community is that the burglaries are the work of ex-soldiers who resent the loss of their special perks-apartments, clothes and consumer goods-and seek to make up for the loss at the expense of well-stocked foreign embassies...
...unbreakable bicycle lock invented by three MIT juniors may help keep down this spring's rash of bike thefts...