Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four months. Last week he rammed his new budget, overdue by two months, through a parliamentary committee. In a three-minute session marred by shoving and shouting, L.D.P. Budget Chairman Shigetani Sunada declared the measure passed and adjourned the committee. The national daily Asahi Shimbun called the incident a "rash act that shamelessly tramples down the popular will expressed by the local elections." Nakasone called the tactic "unavoidable...
...perhaps one out of three people. Under certain conditions -- a wound, some infections, the presence of a tampon or contraceptive sponge -- the bacteria multiply. If the toxin-producing strain is present, such proliferation can lead to TSS. The symptoms are dramatic and develop quickly: high fever, a sunburn-like rash, severe vomiting and diarrhea, culminating in shock, in which blood pressure plummets and circulation deteriorates. Doctors usually try to head off this life-threatening condition by administering intravenous fluids with electrolytes, and sometimes drugs to restore blood pressure...
While the University administration could have acted reasonably to protect the free-speech rights of both Duke Kent-Brown and the protesters, they chose instead, to act in a rash and violent manner, forcing the end of the talk and infringement on the rights of both parties...
...fancy sneakers, then stylish sunglasses. These days World War II- style leather bomber jackets, valued at up to $300, are the booty of choice for the discriminating young thief in the chilly Northeast. In Boston some 40 incidents have involved bomber jackets. New York City has also seen a rash of ) jacket crimes. But Newark has been hardest hit, with 78 jacket robberies in January alone, 56 of them involving deadly weapons. The Newark police have formed a special jacket unit, some of whose members don models from among the confiscated supply and walk the streets, hoping to tempt those...
Seasoned shoppers and window watchers alike are pounding the pavements this week, taking advantage of a rash of clearance sales sweeping the Harvard Square retail market...