Word: rife
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...side ponytail, but such is the price you must pay for a few hours of “fun.” Instead of mingling with the class of 2012, why don’t you break through the Harvard bubble and check out that expansive, unexplored land rife with nightlife, the city of Boston. Apparently they have clubs and parties out there, and you won’t even have to go back to the same place the next morning for breakfast...
...Combined with the steady stream of statistics indicating an economic weakening in the U.S. and growth even in powerhouses such as China slowing sharply, expectations are rife that the entire global is rapidly sliding into a long, deep recession...
...have said that your stories are rife with political meaning. Does that come from “The Wizard of Oz” or you as an author? GM: I think that “The Wizard of Oz” more or less side-stepped a lot of social implications, I think it was all about pulling yourself up by the bootstraps and did not pay too much attention to anybody in Oz who might not have bootstraps with which to pull himself or herself...
...Part of the failure is due to mismanagement by the U.N., the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and other NGOs. Even though stupidity has been rife in implementation, the wealthiest donor nations have defaulted on pledges and must now increase aid by $18 billion a year to meet the original goal. Assistance has been anemic when it was supposed to be titanic. Bad situations will likely worsen with the financial implosion, especially in Latin America and Eastern Europe, where countries depend heavily upon foreign capital. Turbulence will mean compression of capital flows, labor immobility, and restricted access...
...since before the U.S. invasion. He had already been to Basra three times, but the last time he had driven like this, in a "soft"--unarmored--car and without the protection of the U.S. military, was in late 2003. Earlier this year, the route we were traveling was so rife with violence that the trip would have been impossible. In the past year, the roads south of Baghdad have started to stabilize, thanks to the efforts of Iraqi and U.S. troops and a cease-fire declaration by radical opposition cleric Muqtada al-Sadr...