Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only one left in it. The skeptic will naturally ask "Is this his imaginative, and perhaps vain name for his own inquisitive mind?" Byars will answer no. He insists that there is a real Question Center where he collects questions, and even a skeptic would be rash to doubt that such a man collects questions. If you ask a question, he steps as if taken aback, and says, "Oh, you have given me a question, how nice!" He "exalts in the interrogative," and delights in the very transaction of giving and receiving questions. He collects questions simply "to keep them...
...hand of the free market spanks the Big Three, somebody has to lose, and that usually means the workers. Sales plummet, stocks pile up, production stops; in some cases, such as the Ford plant in Mahwa, New Jersey, the closing is considered permanent. All the closings in the current rash of layoffs affect plants producing large and midsize cars or trucks. Meanwhile General Motors' Tarrytown, New York plant is working overtime to keep up with the burgeoning demand for subcompact X-cars...
...soft-spoken musings, hard to hear over the taped jazz and folk music. "America is in good shape," he offers soothingly. "America is not ideologically racist. Americans are willing to give people a fair shake." He could be a small businessman decompressing amiably between a week's rash of orders and the idyl of a suburban weekend...
...Ramey, a researcher who has worked with many of the leading sex investigators, says the incest taboo owes something to "a peculiarly American problemthe withdrawal of all touching contact." With a little more touching in the home, he thinks, the nation might not be facing "the present rash of feverish adolescent sexual activity outside the home...
When attendants on Eastern Air Lines nights between New York City and Miami or Fort Lauderdale, Fla., began complaining of a mysterious rash of red dots on their faces, necks and hands, the cause at first seemed likely to be some combination of environmental factors, such as the dry air in the planes' cabins or the cleanser used in the food ovens or even cosmetics. But why only Eastern? And why only a few episodes on the carrier's other routes? And how come no passengers or pilots were involved in the 170 reports of the so-called...