Word: rashness
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...soft-spoken musings, hard to hear over the taped jazz and folk music. "America is in good shape," he offers soothingly. "America is not ideologically racist. Americans are willing to give people a fair shake." He could be a small businessman decompressing amiably between a week's rash of orders and the idyl of a suburban weekend...
...Ramey, a researcher who has worked with many of the leading sex investigators, says the incest taboo owes something to "a peculiarly American problemthe withdrawal of all touching contact." With a little more touching in the home, he thinks, the nation might not be facing "the present rash of feverish adolescent sexual activity outside the home...
...surge of terrorism, but the country was also shaken by a major financial-political scandal, culminating in the arrest of 39 prominent bankers and businessmen on charges of embezzlement and other irregularities. Italy has Western Europe's highest inflation rate (21.7%); unemployment stands at 7.7%. A rash of labor strikes has disrupted transport, newspaper and hotel services and left the streets of Italy's major cities piled high with uncollected garbage...
Eastern's red rash diagnosed
When attendants on Eastern Air Lines nights between New York City and Miami or Fort Lauderdale, Fla., began complaining of a mysterious rash of red dots on their faces, necks and hands, the cause at first seemed likely to be some combination of environmental factors, such as the dry air in the planes' cabins or the cleanser used in the food ovens or even cosmetics. But why only Eastern? And why only a few episodes on the carrier's other routes? And how come no passengers or pilots were involved in the 170 reports of the so-called...