Word: rashness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...cannibalizing his girlfriend, he became a pundit on television shows and was given his own newspaper column. Obara's arrest prompted a deluge of phone calls to the British embassy from Japanese who wanted to express their shame. But at the same time, hostesses in Roppongi report a rash of male customers introducing themselves as "Joji Obara." Amelia, one of the young women working at Lucie's old club, says a customer told her recently: "'I know a girl like you would never sleep with me. The only way I could get you would be to drug...
...after a rash of stories in The Boston Globe and The Boston Herald investigating various allegations of wrongdoing—ranging from sitting for the bar exam too early to not filing state income taxes in 1998 and 1999—Davis-Mullen’s name recognition has increased, but her public image has taken a beating...
...baseball executives were moved to action. Led by Shigeyoshi Ino, general manager of the Pacific League Kobe-based Orix Blue Wave (owned by Orix Corp., a major leasing company), they came up with a plan designed to close the Nomo loophole and enable management to profit from the growing rash of defections. The so-called posting system gives a player still a year or two shy of free-agent eligibility the opportunity to sign up with a major league team - if that team agrees to pay his Japanese club a negotiating fee. Last year the 27-year-old Ichiro became...
PSLM should capitalize on the common ground it shares with the administration. Instead it has created a great divide between itself and the administration by its rash and excessive actions. When the sit-in is over, administrators’ disagreement with the living wage campaign’s mission will be mild in comparison to their anger at the occupation of Massachusetts Hall. PSLM’s unlawful behavior has needlessly hindered the administration’s ability to do its work—the vast majority of which, even PSLM would agree, betters the University. It has also proved...
...Judgment at Nuremberg" has just opened on Broadway (for the first time, believe it or not), and it's one of a rash of Holocaust-related dramas filling stages in New York City and around the country. The Center Stage in Baltimore recently completed the first major U.S. revival of "The Investigation," Peter Weiss's 1965 play drawn entirely from transcripts of the Frankfurt trials of those who helped run the Auschwitz death camp. Arje Shaw's "The Gathering," about the conflict between a Holocaust survivor (Hal Linden) and his son, will arrive on Broadway in April. And off-Broadway...