Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Szekeres case is just the latest in a recent rash of student embezzlement allegations...
...peace and security" of the region and "of grave concern to the U.S." The Clinton Administration has not spelled out what it would do in case the Chinese civil war turned hot again. Says a China specialist at the State Department: "The folks in Taiwan who might do something rash should not assume we would come to their aid, and the folks in Beijing who might do something militarily should not assume we won't." Such lack of clarity could lead to miscalculations. "Would we get involved in fighting a war with China?" the diplomat muses. "I don't know...
David James Wright, 38, of Los Angeles remembers the feeling vividly. One evening in 1983, around midnight, he began sweating profusely. Soon, a red rash covered his body and he had trouble breathing. A friend rushed him to an emergency room, but nobody could determine what was wrong. "I was shaking violently," he recalls. "It was a nightmare." Nine days later, however, he felt fine. It was only years later, when he fell seriously ill, that he realized what had happened...
Because of the rash of injuries, Harvard wrestlers were forced to compete in unfamiliar weight divisions. Due to freshman Occhuizzo's injury, freshman Andrew Stoll--who usually competes at 190 pounds--took Occhuizzo's place in both 200-plus pound events...
...crime, which is on the rise. But they have broad authorization to check IDs, question people and commandeer vehicles. Residents are wary of their role, in both the capital and other cities, including Shanghai, where more police have been deployed. An anticorruption drive by Jiang has resulted in a rash of arrests--47,560 in 1995--and each week the official media report the incarceration or execution of several corrupt bureaucrats or businessmen. Jiang has also approved a slew of nationalistic campaigns, including a drive against the recent fad of putting miniature foreign flags on the dashboards of private cars...