Word: rife
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the deployment of more than 1.2 million police and paramilitary troops, almost 100 people were killed last week in election-related violence. Allegations of vote fraud were rife, even in Gandhi's own constituency, as Congress used its great wealth, muscle and control over patronage to boost its chances of winning...
...between 1985 and 1988 because of weak marketing and a stodgy product line. Says Laurel Cutler, Chrysler's vice president of consumer affairs: "There's no market for products that everybody likes just a little. Anything that's boring is vulnerable. I would say that the midsize market is rife with vulnerability...
...Airplanes on the Roof is the story of a mentally ill woman's attempt to reconcile her own view of the world--rife with dissolving buildings, alien super-intelligence, and time travel--with the everyday world society is attempting to impose upon her. We sympathize with "M" (Betsy Aidem), as she conjures up our own fears of losing the ability to trust our senses and expresses our own desires to be accepted by society without having to compromise with...
...media market rife with three tabloid newspapers and half-a-dozen trashy local television news shows gobbled up the appalling incident and gave New York what they thought it wanted to see--the final showdown in a racial turf war that nobody could win, while ignoring the very real underlying problems which the incident represented...
After a decade of reform that the Chinese had hoped would lead to steady economic and social progress, why had chaos and barbarity suddenly descended on Beijing? No answer had meaning for long. Even as Li and Yang appeared at Deng's side, speculation was rife that the Premier and the chief of state were dispensable. Rumors about Deng's frail health were not resolved by his appearance on television: his left hand trembled, his face was puffy, his eyes ringed with dark circles. But as he spoke, his words grew in coherency and exuded authority. At one point...