Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...level of public concern about ethical issues waxes and wanes; Watergate prompted a reassessment of ethics in government and the Vietnam War provoked a rejection of American militarism. Today, the Wall Street insider trading cases and the rash of corporate takeovers have sparked a scrutiny of business ethics...
...longtime friend and colleague described a more personal side of Loury, saying he is "immature" and rash and intensely leader of the Black community. The friend added that Loury had "a self-destructive personality" which sometimes led him to seek risk and excitement in defiance of social norms...
...obligation to do good. These articles of faith, embodied in the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution, literally govern our lives today. Meanwhile the compulsions to repent and punish sin remain just beneath the skin, erupting like fever blisters in times of stress and producing a rash of reforms. Inevitably the compulsions tend to disappear as quickly as they surface, leaving the root causes of trouble intact. As Democratic Congressman Leon Panetta of California puts it, "There comes a backlash to these reforms." Thus, after the Watergate scandal of the early '70s, both the Government and the people turned...
From the time that Dutch Physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovered superconductivity in 1911 until the recent rash of breakthroughs, there was only one way to produce the phenomenon: by bathing the appropriate metals -- and later, certain metallic alloys -- in liquid helium. This exotic substance is produced by lowering the temperature of rare and costly helium gas to 4.2 K (-452 degrees F), at which point it liquefies. But the process is expensive and requires considerable energy. Furthermore, unless the liquid helium is tightly sealed in a heavily insulated container, it quickly warms and vaporizes away. Thus the practical...
Harvard has had a rash of departures this year.Last semester the former Shattuck Professor ofGovernment James Q. Wilson left for the Universityof California at Los Angeles (UCLA...