Word: rife
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...countries and speaking more than 100 languages. Less than half read at or above grade level, 1 out of 3 drop out before their senior year, and those who do stay in school often take five to seven years to graduate from high school. The system itself is rife with troubles. Almost a third of the city's 32 local school boards are under investigation for corruption, building maintenance has chalked up a $500 million backlog, and a basic in-school service like nursing care has been slashed 86%. An impossible caseload of 1,000 high school students for every...
Reports of ill-tempered behavior on the part of the teenage group have been rife throughout the summer. Just down the road from the school, at a bar called the Tent, there was said to be a scuffle between New Kid Joe McIntyre, his brother and a local man. Several weeks later, two of Donnie Wahlberg's brothers were arrested at a party in Braintree, minutes away from...
Bizarre as it may seem to some Westerners, the prospect of Saddam's emerging as a populist idol is not farfetched. In a region rife with dissolute and spendthrift rulers, he is admired for his austere and disciplined habits. "He has no palaces, no Swiss bank accounts," says Major General Yusuf Kawash, a retired member of the Jordanian army. Saddam has positioned himself as an avenging Robin Hood, intent upon stealing the wealth of the affluent but uncaring gulf states and redistributing it to the impoverished Arab masses. Jordan's Hussein reinforced that reasoning early last week, when he said...
Wrong. Within an hour, an "emergency actionteam" of students had mobilized to inform everyGrays resident of the impending danger. They wentdoor to door with words of doom--rife withtheories about the debilitating effects oftungsten sulfate compounds ("It will sear yourskin right off your hand. I know. I took the ChemAP...
...biography reads, in its entirety: "Eagle Scout Missoula Montana." And at his Cannes press conference, this ordinary looking fellow with the buttoned-up collar and the untied shoelace answered questions with the blissed-out graciousness of an Eagle Scout from Mars. Told by one reporter that his films are rife with graphic visions of violence, he stared benignly and replied, "I have even worse." Asked about the similarities in cast and tone between Twin Peaks and Wild at Heart, he said, "The main thing they have in common is wood." Oh. Any more questions? As Sailor says to Lula...