Word: rife
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kind of case-specific solicitation, though forbidden by the Ohio bar's long-standing ethical tenets, is "commercial speech" protected by the First Amendment. Advertisements, wrote Justice Byron White for the majority, are not comparable to face-to-face solicitation of clients, which can be prohibited because it is "rife with possibilities for overreaching . . . and outright fraud." The court rejected the contention that ads like Zauderer's will "stir up litigation" unnecessarily. "That our citizens have access to their civil courts is not an evil to be regretted," said White. "The state is not entitled to interfere with that access...
...deputy and my superior, Kirill Novikov. Along with Tsarapkin, Novikov had sat behind Stalin during the Potsdam Conference in 1945. He would reveal himself in the way he reminisced: "In Stalin's time we had real order. There were none of these rhetorical flourishes and vacillations." Moscow was rife with gossip about intrigues. A clique in the Presidium (Khrushchev's name for the Politburo), labeled the "anti-party group" and including Foreign Minister Dmitri Shepilov, nearly engineered a palace coup against Khrushchev. But he convened the Central Committee, stronghold of his support, and stripped his rivals of their positions. Around...
...theme that may recur during the current journey. By the end of his 18,500- mile trip, John Paul will have flown from Venezuela to Ecuador to Peru to Trinidad and Tobago, delivered 44 other speeches, lunched with steelworkers, met upcountry Indians and visited a sector of Peru rife with Maoist guerrillas...
...meeting, one minister acknowledged, was rife with the kind of "speeches and hyperbole" that may bog down a full OPEC session this week. Nonetheless, the delegates reached at least a loose consensus that OPEC should trim back its output to match demand rather than cut its prices. "We are willing to make some sacrifices on production," said one OPEC diplomat, "but a change in price will not help anyone...
...troops were living and working in facilities that predated World War II. Some were World War I cavalry stables; nearly 3,000 soldiers lived in a former Wehrmacht military prison. Tanks, trucks and other equipment were often older than the soldiers who used them. Drug and alcohol abuse were rife, racial conflict inside units and with local citizens was frequent, and hostility from the vociferous West German peace movement was palpable. Overall, the sad condition of U.S. forces raised serious questions about NATO's ability to defend the Western allies. Says John Kominicki, a reporter with the U.S. military...