Word: rife
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which helps explain why the Bush- Quayle campaign organization is currently divided over tactics. The re- election team has begun to exhibit a Dukakis-like tendency to botch easy wins, like the photo-op-that-failed with Ronald Reagan in California two weeks ago. Backbiting and finger pointing are rife. Bush's speeches, never memorable in good days, now range from disjointed to enigmatic, bouncing randomly from Cuban independence to the budget deal to trade issues, and leaving many listeners scratching their head. Campaign chairman Bob Teeter, under fire from colleagues for keeping too much to himself, is worried that...
...President of Harvard Students Agencies, Inc., I write to you in response to your February 5th front-page story "HSA's Let's Go Guides Spin Off As For-Profit Co." The Crimson's portrayal of HSA, Inc., composed by Joe Matthews '95, is rife with inaccuracies and distortions which pervert the innocent incorporation...
...could the financial cops have allowed two such blatant scandals to take place? Part of the answer is that the international financial system is rife with offshore tax havens, secrecy laws and virtually unregulated banking zones. Maxwell's family trusts were incorporated in Liechtenstein, and B.C.C.I. was incorporated in Luxembourg. Both countries are known for their lax regulation. In each case, the con men made billions of dollars disappear through the world's cracks and loopholes...
...most pure and abstract battles remain to be fought over the use of religious symbols in the public arena -- an issue rife with irony in a country ! that stamps its coins with the words "In God We Trust." Later this year the Supreme Court will decide whether to hear an appeal from the city of Zion, Ill., which was ordered by a lower court to scrap the city seal, consisting of a ribbon with the words "God Reigns" and a shield containing a dove, sword, crown and Latin cross. The device was adopted in 1902. The city argues that...
...were only a simple case of crooks vs. cops, art theft might be easier to control. But complicity is rife within the art world. Richard Volpe, who was an ace art detective with the New York City police for 25 years, contends that "the least guilty of all parties are the thieves." These "mules," he insists, "couldn't do it without the cooperation of gallery owners, flea- market purveyors, auction houses, museums, insurers, security companies, collectors and finally law-enforcement agencies. Everyone else either knowingly or through neglect gives the thief...