Word: rashness
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...don’t think this rash of violence is anything insidious, I think it’s a result of the way young people are taking out their disagreements with one another,” said City Councillor E. Denise Simmons...
...your doctor. Hypochondriacs beware: "It's not a self-diagnosis book, and people who use it as such probably aren't using it as we intended," says assistant editor Michael Berkwits. FYI: Kawasaki syndrome, discovered in Japan in the 1960s, may show up in small children as skin rash, fever and enlarged lymph nodes. --By Sora Song
Lipsky wisely zeroes in on a few cadets. "Whitey" Herzog is a studly, overachieving sergeant. "Huck" Finn (everybody at West Point has a nickname) is a malcontent who signed on just to play football. The book's most affecting character is George Rash, the antithesis of huah, a tuba-playing loner in the world capital of male bonding. Take a good look: this is the face America turns to most of the world, and until now it's one that most of us have never seen. --By Lev Grossman
...Amicus union, "but the deepening pensions crisis means they don't have any choice." Under the new rules, dismissal on age grounds will only be permissible if the employer can show just cause. Employers' groups will be keeping a close watch. "We do not want to see a rash of tribunal cases from employees who think they've been removed early and unjustifiably," says David Frost, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce. More work for lawyers, then. Second Chances A year after scrapping its last attempt at a stock market flotation after a slide in share prices, British...
...Naturally, when the cops were confronted with real, bad guys?terrorists who last year committed a rash of bombings and the kidnapping of American journalist Daniel Pearl?this squeeze-them-until-they-squeal approach got them nowhere. Agents from the FBI brought in for the Pearl case and the U.S. consulate bombing were also less than impressed by such techniques, according to a Western diplomat. A police officer admits that at first his men were also afraid of the extremists, who had informers inside the police force. They were also well equipped, he says, with guns smuggled across the lawless...