Word: rashness
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...holds some inflationary dangers of its own. Britain has the lowest productivity and most antiquated industrial plant and equipment of any major European state. A tax cut could well make British customers demand more goods and services than the country can produce, leading to a rash of domestic price increases and sucking in imports at an inflationary clip...
...gruff but avuncular authority figure, Vorster gained votes from both South Africans who want him to safeguard the country against change and those who want him to bring about change safely. In recent weeks there has been a series of incidents-a rash of daylight robberies and attacks in white suburban areas -that has had an unsettling effect on the national psyche. A bomb exploded at rush hour in Johannesburg's leading shopping complex, injuring 19 people. Two weeks ago, a National Party candidate for Parliament, Economist Robert Smit, and his wife Jeanne-Cora, were murdered in their home...
...Burial at Ornans, 1850. The nude figure in The Bathers, 1853, that pink wardrobe waddling into the forest, was a scandal; one wag dubbed it "a 45-year-old woman at the moment of washing herself for the first time in her life, in the hope of assuaging her rash." But we now see in the figure's mounds, dimples and excited brush marks one of the most majestic nudes since Rubens...
...occasionally join in acts of violence. The terrorists and their sympathizers "are standing, rifle by foot, waiting to go into action," says Dr. Hans-Joseph Horchem, chief of the Hamburg division of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. In the near future, he predicts a rash of explosions and arson and at least one attempt to assassinate a leading politician or judicial official...
...would like to see admitted under affirmative action, or the time within which they would like to see major advances toward equal opportunity attained. Nor is there really the danger that if the U.C. Davis case is not ruled unconstitutional that this will only be the beginning of a rash of "quota" systems. Most admissions officials don't feel comfortable in the least with the idea of quotas, and since the federal government would never mandate schools to start using them, they don't have to worry. Furthermore, it is hardly clear that the U.C. Davis program could ever...