Word: rife
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same breath. But between those brightly colored posters ("Come on now, don't be silly, put a condom on your willy") emblazoned across kiosks and in stairwells and the computerized dating service brought to us by the Undergraduate Council and the Harvard Computer Society, our campus seems rife with overt sexuality--and rearing to go for Valentine's Day. For a college not known for its throbbing sex life, Harvard appears to be doing all right...
...address the issue of stress and the problem of support networks on campus, as well as the method employed, namely consulting students directly. However, before we offer unequivocal praise to the administration, it is important to acknowledge that this move is long overdue on a campus that is rife with stresses and scarce with services...
Ovitz hadn't planned to leave until next year, but events overtook him. He spent last week in Manhattan, attending a premiere of The Preacher's Wife on Monday. But Tuesday was rife with rumors that he was out. Wednesday evening he appeared strained as he addressed a Council on Foreign Relations meeting. As he spoke, Eisner was headed for Manhattan...
...intends to broadcast the second of his radio talks, explaining what measures the government will take to up its income. Yeltsin is reacting to unprecedented shortfalls which have pushed the Finance Ministry to cut expenditures and borrow more money just to keep the government functioning. Tax evasion is rife in Russia, where the Tax Inspectorate agency is both inefficient and unable to cope with the demands placed on it by the developing market economy. But the reluctance of Russian business to pay its taxes has led to a severe funding crunch for the federal budget. Millions of workers, teachers...
...center regularly monitors public opinion: "Optimism about the future had flown out the window." Palestinians blamed mostly the Israelis for their hopelessness, but also Arafat and his P.A. They felt their leadership had been duped into a dead-end peace deal. And they bristled at the corruption and abuse rife within the power structure created by Arafat...