Word: rashness
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...seemed simple. The Justice Department decided that a rash of acquisitions by ITT, the big conglomerate, did violence to the antitrust laws. Justice decreed that the firm could keep the Hartford Fire Insurance Co. and some smaller firms if it would divest itself of Avis, the nation's No. 2 car-rental firm, within three years. Since then the effort to sell off Avis has become bogged down in byzantine legal maneuvering that, if nothing else, sharply underscores the difficulties of pursuing a vigorous antitrust policy...
...begins with a runny nose, accompanied by a feeling of listlessness. Soon body temperature may soar as high as 40.5° C. (105° F.), and the patient develops the characteristic red rash of common measles, or rubeola.* Though this childhood disease seemed on the verge of extinction after the introduction of a vaccine against it in the early 1960s, measles has been making an alarming comeback. In recent months, there have been startling outbreaks in such widely scattered states as California, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, Texas and Virginia...
Nixon's memories of Nikita Khrushchev were vivid. He was "boorish, crude, brilliant, ruthless, potentially rash, with a terrible inferiority complex." He would put on a "big macho act to prove that he was ahead of everybody and everything." Part of the act was his "air of being just a common, peasantlike person... with a sloppy hat and a collar that wouldn't be too clean...
...Jersey Republican Clifford Case sponsored a Senate measure urging "sympathetic consideration" for Israeli co-production of the F16. New York Republican Jacob Javits and Idaho Democrat Frank Church introduced another, restating U.S. pledges to maintain Israel's military strength. The White House, worried by the possibility of a rash of similar resolutions in behalf of other nations, hastily sought a compromise. The Humphrey-Case measure was withdrawn, the Javits-Church toned down. Carter in return stoutly declared at a White House press conference that Israel was entitled to arms because of its "special relation" with the U.S., which...
While the Elis were upsetting Harvard in the rain ten days ago, they were visibly the more inspired bunch; such is the stuff that upsets are made of. Inevitably, one wonder if this is the reason behind Harvard's unexpected rash of losses...