Word: rashness
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Detroit's city government is already scraping. A rise in crime is putting added burdens on the police force, while greater demands are being made for social services. Yet the rash of layoffs is expected to carve at least $10 million in city tax revenues out of the municipal budget, and Mayor Coleman A. Young worries that Detroit may have to ask for outside aid. Says he: "Our city's problems are only a harbinger of what the nation will soon be facing...
...essential amino acids-found in milk, meat, fish, beans and nuts-can bring on kwashiorkor, a wasting disease that kills tens of thousands of children each year in Africa, India, Southeast Asia and parts of South America. Kwashiorkor victims, whose tissues are usually swollen with fluid, develop a scaly rash and liver troubles. They are most easily recognized by the characteristic that gave the disease its Ghanaian name of "Red Johnny"; for reasons unknown, their hair turns a coppery color...
Sargent's most important tactic has been to label Dukakis young, inexperienced and rash. Speaking as the "voice of experience," Sargent has been able to poke holes in Dukakis proposals, causing the Democrat to waffle on the issues...
...Bank of England report last week cited some of the weaknesses that plague British corporations and could trigger a rash of bankruptcies: chronically low profit margins, diminished cash flow and tight money. Just as the bank's report appeared, London's financial community learned that Ferranti, a leading electronics and defense contractor, could not meet its obligations and had exhausted its lines of credit. Financiers in the City immediately began to worry about which company would be next...
...Harvard Medical School, noticed that dreams, fears and personal associations sometimes prefigured physical diseases. In one case a woman who reported a cluster of hints about a coming illness, including a dream of riding in a red car with a German shepherd, soon produced the familiar red rash of German measles...