Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rash of financial scandals that prompted politicians of both left and right to get together and grant amnesty to themselves went far toward convincing voters that the entire Establishment is corrupt. All this seems to point toward political paralysis and an uncertain future, during which the political establishment's attention is likely to be preoccupied by jockeying for next year's parliamentary elections...
...England Telephone is monitoring the phones of selected Harvard students to determine the source of a recent rash of harassing phone calls, police officials said yesterday...
Gravano is just one of a number of high-ranking mobsters who have turned state's evidence recently, including Philadelphia underboss Philip Leonetti and Lucchese family boss Alphonse D'Arco. One reason for the rash of defections may be that prison conditions are getting less congenial these days for the Mafia. "There was a time when Mafia guys ran the jails," says Joseph Coffey, a top investigator with the New York State Organized Crime Task Force. "They were like country clubs. Now the blacks run the jails, and mobsters are second-class citizens...
Digging further, Faludi found that the rash of "toxic day-care" stories, which instilled guilt among working women by recounting the epidemic of abuse in day-care centers, masked the fact that the vast majority of child abuse goes on in the home. She also found fault with the stories about women with Harvard M.B.A.s dropping out to go home and raise their children, the Good Housekeeping ads of the New Traditionalist, the notion of the Mommy Track; to her, they all implied that the postfeminist woman was the one who had sampled having it all and preferred to give...
...anonymous caller or callers have placed a rash of harassing phone calls, many involving anti-Asian statements, to students during the past week...