Word: rashness
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...give the activist impression when I want. But behind it, I have a very well-thought-out plan. I never do anything rash. People will underestimate me, if they don't think through what I've done. It was said, for example, that when I came to Washington, I would never be able to stand the heat, that I would wilt in a year. It was later said that good old fumbling Don doesn't know the Washington procedure. Now, four years later, I'm still here...
Schechter thinks the CDC will find a rash of cases. Since the Los Angeles Times carried a story about Cislaw, Schechter's office has been flooded with hundreds of calls from clove smokers complaining of shortness of breath, nosebleeds, nausea, lung infections and asthma. "About 30% to 35% said they were coughing up blood," he says. "Emergency rooms haven't seen a symptom like that since TB was in style...
...majority on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals that voted last month to dismiss a libel suit against Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, whose Washington column appears in about 180 newspapers. In his 37-page concurring opinion Bork suggested that the courts ought to be stricter about the rash of libel suits. He did not mention General William Westmoreland's $120 million suit against CBS--in which the general's attorney vows to "dismantle" CBS News--or former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon's $50 million suit against Time Inc. Bork examined the conflicting rights...
...poisonous dioxin were released into the atmosphere over an area of 4,500 acres when a chemical reaction at the Hoffman-La Roche plant set off an explosion. More than 1,000 residents were forced to flee, and many children developed a disfiguring rash called chloracne, but no lives were lost...
...that Rifaat negotiated his return during a secret visit to Damascus in October and in talks with presidential envoys subsequently sent to Europe. Among his intentions is to regain command of Syria's elite Defense Companies, a position he lost earlier this year, in part because of his rash use of the unit during a three-way power struggle. Hafez Assad, 54, was then recuperating from a heart attack. By all appearances in recent months, the President's recovery has been complete...