Word: rashness
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...police commissioner, Lee Brown, seem at a loss for remedies to the worst crime wave to hit the city in a decade. "New York is in desperate need of leadership," says Moss, "and it simply isn't there." A TIME/CNN poll of New Yorkers taken during this summer's rash of killings showed that only 47% approved of Dinkins' performance, and an equal number believed he is no different or worse than his abrasive predecessor, Edward I. Koch...
Some within the Administration contend that an Iraqi retreat that left Saddam's formidable war machine intact, or him in power, would be unacceptable. Once American forces are strong enough, they would welcome some rash act by Saddam, such as an attack on Saudi Arabia's oil fields with high explosives or poison gas. That would give the U.S. an excuse to try to oust him by force. Other officials argued that the blockade alone, if it succeeded in forcing Saddam to disgorge Kuwait, would be enough to fell him. Said another senior official: "One way or another...
Eight years later, Bush still saw foreign policy as his ticket to the White House and the true measure of presidential achievement. After Michael Dukakis' rousing performance at the 1988 Democratic Convention, Bush was down 17 points in the polls. A rash of silly sloganeering and low blows ensued (remember the Pledge of Allegiance and Willie Horton?), but the road back followed a carefully detailed game plan and always returned to attacking Dukakis as ill equipped to manage America's world role. Whenever complicated domestic questions threatened to confuse the message, Bush heeded his handlers' advice and pushed his central...
Doctors at the University Health Services (UHS) took action after discovering that one student complaining of a rash Friday afternoon may have been suffering "atypical measles," said Dr. Charles Weingarten, chief of medicine at UHS. Although there was only a small chance that the student actually did have the measles, Weingarten said UHS took precautionary measures because the disease is highly contagious...
...incubation period for measles is between eight and 12 days, Weingarten said, adding that the disease becomes infectious about 10 days after exposure--usually two days before any symptoms appear and as many as four days before the characteristic measles rash develops...