Word: rife
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Speculation about when the U.S. and its allies will move against Saddam Hussein is now rife, and hardly idle. Financial markets have been rising and falling on nearly every clue and rumor. The most discussed potential timetables...
...whole: conservative "stagnators" and "reformers" are struggling for church control. In addition, some conservatives in Orthodoxy are joining forces with unreconstructed Communists and right-wing nationalists. Their goal: revival of old-style Russian chauvinism, both religious and secular, within the boundaries of the Soviet multinational empire. Rumors are rife in Moscow that the right-wing movement inspired the murder a month ago of Father Alexander Menn, an outstanding church progressive assailed by anti-Semites for his Jewish descent...
...battle over CLT is rife on the airwaves. One hotbed of CLT support is Boston radio station WRKO. Every week the triumvirate of talkmaster Jerry Williams, Boston Herald columninst Howie Carr and CLT head Barbara Anderson--informally known as the three governors--gather to promote the passage of the question...
...speech rife with references to prominent Americans from Abraham Lincoln to Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Kemp said that the Republicans best represent the interests of Massachusetts voters today...
Nepotism is rife even in the armed forces. "Every commander has some link to the royal family," notes Anthony Cordesman, Washington's foremost expert on the Saudi military. "Loyalty to the House of Saud is the critical factor, not military proficiency." According to U.S. advisers, many of the princely pilots fly only when they want to. During scrambles early in the crisis, a discouraging proportion of them called in sick...