Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rash of robberies is especially disruptive in a nation like Brazil, where few people use credit cards, and utility bills and taxes cannot be paid by mail. Frustrated law-enforcement officials blame the courts for not keeping bank robbers behind bars. At the same time, however, many officials agree that the problem is rooted in Sāo Paulo's rampant unemployment and the low wages that are symptoms of Brazil's ailing economy. "We've had an awesome demographic explosion, with people flooding into the big cities looking for gold in the streets," said Jorge Miguel...
Despite the rash of mishaps and irritations, the scientist-astronauts seemed pleased with the gleaming celestial laboratory. Said Lichtenberg, a biomedical engineer from M.I.T.: "It's just an amazing vehicle. Spacelab lives up to all its expectations." In one experiment involving a pallet instrument called a spectrophotometer, the scientists succeeded in making the first measurements of deuterium, a heavy form of hydrogen, in the upper atmosphere. By such observations, scientists can study weather patterns on earth. They can also explore the history of distant worlds, since the presence of large quantities of deuterium is a sign that a planet...
...episode was the most violent hijacking in Soviet aviation history, though by no means the first. Since 1970,14 cases of air piracy have been reported in the Soviet Union. In 1973, after a rash of hijack attempts, authorities declared that plane seizures resulting in loss of life were punishable by death. Neither that penalty nor the rigorous security checks to be found at every Soviet airport were sufficient to deter the Georgian wedding party. Alarmed Soviet officials launched a high-level investigation into the case. No mention of the event appeared in the Soviet national press...
...University has the perfect opportunity right now to change its position on the final clubs: it has begun a review of its relationship to outside student organizations, prompted by a recent rash of injuries at a Pi Eta club initiation. Harvard has no excuse not to sever all its ties to the clubs with decisiveness and haste...
...Crimson's 5-1 victory yesterday at the University of New Hampshire left it with a 9-5 overall slate. But the booters fell short of their two goals: an Ivy title and an NCAA tournament berth. Favored to cop the league crown in 1983, Harvard suffered a rash of injuries that left it celebrating only the prospect of a fresh start next year...