Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...under a 1976 statute, successful plaintiffs may recover legal fees from the losing party in such cases. In a 23-page dissent, Justice Lewis Powell scolded the majority for ignoring "the lessons of history, logic, and policy" in extending the act beyond protection of civil rights. He predicted a rash of suits against the states for their handling of food stamps, educational benefits and other federal programs...
...dredged out. Roads and bridges will have to be rebuilt and sewage and drain systems unplugged. In Washington State alone, 370,000 people have been left temporarily jobless. Perhaps one-tenth may be out of work for a year. A still incalculable long-term effect may be a rash of respiratory and lung ailments from continued inhalation...
...bell was tolling. The bell of fate and of history . . . Sending Gulag would be a rash, a very risky, business, but opportunities were few, and there was no other in prospect. Right, I would send it. The heart had surfaced from one anxiety only to plunge into another. There was no rest. But - two novels of mine appearing simultaneously in the West? A double? I felt like the Hawaiian surf riders described by Jack London, standing upright on a smooth board, with nothing to hold on to, nothing to hamper me, on the crest of the ninth wave, my lungs...
...side effect unmentioned in a PPI. Though the FDA figures that the cost of preparing, storing and distributing leaflets would add only an average of 6¼? to each prescription, professional groups reckon the extra tab at 22? to 35?. Pharmacists are afraid that the leaflets will provoke a rash of time-consuming questions from customers. Some say that they may be put in the uncomfortable position of seeming to second-guess the doctors. Gripes a Virginia pharmacist: "If the medical profession were doing its job, there wouldn't be a consumer need for these PPIs...
Vance's message was not in tune with the times. The seemingly endless crisis in Iran, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the rash of leftist rebellions in Central America restored to fashion the traditional balance-of-power politics; the Soviet-American shouting match of the past year has all but drowned out the North-South dialogue...