Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...short run, the Administration must be resolute and maintain a strong U.S. presence in Lebanon without taking to the offensive. Whoever is responsible for this bestiality was trying to provoke a rash American response--either drawing the Marines into battle or forcing them to pull out. Whatever our role in Lebanon, we cannot change it merely as a response to one horrifying incident...
Harvard officials said last week that a recent rash of false alarms in some House has encouraged a lax attitude among both students and the Cambridge Fire Department, despite an overall decrease in the number of false alarms since last year...
...Soviets' rash act certainly strengthens military hard-liners and gives Reagan an even better chance to win final congressional approval for deploying the MX missile while limiting U.S. concessions in arms-control talks. Jesse Helms made the point well in discussing the Soviets with conservative colleagues in Seoul last week. Said he: "This is the best chance we ever had to paint these bastards into a corner...
...this year's rash of cases? One likely culprit is the weather, says Dr. Jack Poland of the Centers for Disease Control's regional office in Fort Collins, Colo. Because of a particularly cool and wet spring, plague-carrying squirrels, prairie dogs and other rodents proliferated. So did the fleas that spread the disease to wild animals and eventually to humans...
...first summer in office, he told elements of the Navy's Sixth Fleet to steam into the Gulf of Sidra, which Muammar Gaddafi claims as Libyan territorial waters, and two of the fleet's F-14s promptly shot down a pair of attacking Libyan Su-22s. The rash, Soviet-supplied Libyan leader is a bête noire to the Administration: last February when Gaddafi was suspected of fomenting a coup against the pro-U.S. Sudanese regime, Washington sent four AWACS to neighboring Egypt and the carrier Nimitz to Libya's coast...