Word: rashness
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Gleefully sipping champagne at an afternoon celebration, Bloembergen and his colleagues attributed the recent rash of Nobel Laureates--seven in the last three years--to Harvard's demanding tenuring process, which they said winnows out all but the most stellar of scholars in a manner similar to the Nobel selection format of the Swedish Academy...
...Houses. Though he made no specific recommendations, Bok singled out incidents of racial tension, harassment of gay students, disrespect for property, and lack of consideration for neighbors as increasing problems. Bok's talk impressed the masters. The president, they said later, seemed unusually troubled by the perceived rash of "inconsiderate" behavior...
JOSEPH WOLPE, author of Our Useless Fears, sets himself a lofty goal. You would never know it from the cover: the inch-high purple letters hailing "the world's foremost authority on anxiety" immediately remind one of the rash of self-help books so abundant during the last few years. But in opening paragraph of his preface, Wolpe assures us that his book is not of that genre, revealing his true motive in a voice filled with profound eloquence: "These offshoots of behavior therapy are like the uppermost branches of a tree, visible above a mist." He expounds further...
...President's problem is painfully real: how to convince a sudden rash of skeptics that he can balance the budget by fiscal 1984 as he has promised, thus avoiding both ruinous inflationary deficits and a continuation of the towering interest rates that threaten a new recession (see ECONOMY AND BUSINESS). Moreover, the now apparent inadequacy of the first series of budget cuts addressed to that goal has forced the Administration into an agonizing internal debate: how to reconcile the budget-balancing pledge with Reagan's equally heartfelt promise to launch a gargantuan military buildup...
...rules. The Administration has also cut back on the funding and powers of the FTC's antitrust division, which it had originally hoped to eliminate. As a result, the FTC has been less aggressive in opposing corporate mergers, a reversal that may be helping to fuel the recent rash of takeover bids. Last week an FTC official ruled that antitrust actions against the three largest cereal companies be dropped. The commission is also backing away from plans to regulate nonprescription drugs, require used-car dealers to issue warranties, and restrict advertising for sugared cereals and other products aimed...