Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attention: the symptoms can range from joint pain and lethargy in mild cases to debilitating arthritis and even heart damage. But thwarting Lyme disease is not so easy, as anyone knows who has ever searched for the poppy seed-size tick that carries it, or for its unmistakable rash -- which sometimes never appears at all. Tests sometimes don't reveal an infection, and symptoms may not show up for months -- and when they finally do, antibiotics don't always work...
...Johnson's biggest headaches was a rash of bike thefts that plagued the Houses and the Yard...
...countries of the former East bloc have been largely sidelined. Not only are they torn by civil strife, but they are also confronted with hundreds of desperate environmental crises, ranging from an outbreak of malignant tumors in the heavily contaminated Silesia region of southwest Poland to a rash of lung, skin and eye disorders among Bulgarian children who live near chemical plants on the Danube River. Eastern Europe's governments, barely able to keep their economies moving, have little money to clean up pollution. In presummit negotiations the main role of what used to be called the second world...
...stage adapters and actor Patrick Cassidy keep the character endearingly ordinary -- a bit silly, a bit rash, bright but not brilliant, decent but not saintly. He is a hero anyone can emulate. The children, talented and engaging, have the same down-home appeal, in contrast to the adult villagers and visiting officials, who seem contrived. This is not a portrait of an artist as a young man, but a portrait of a young man sharing with the next generation the art of everyday living and learning. Every society needs such do-gooders to come to the rescue, working...
...talk about the perils of "divided government," Gephardt said the recent rash of resignations of timeworn legislators reveals how partisan politics have begun to hinder the effectiveness of the federal government...