Word: spate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first part of the program is an attack on managerial prerogatives, symbolized by Paragraph 32 in the rules of the employers federation. The campaign began in earnest in 1971, with the L.O. convention calling for greater workers' control over working conditions, planning and personnel policies. Since then a spate of new laws has come into effect...
While Ford was touring the Midwest, law-enforcement authorities were trying to run down a spate of new reports about potential assassins. One mysterious phone call warned that three people were driving from Montreal in a blue station wagon to kill Ford and the visiting Emperor Hirohito (see page...
...exchange of coup threats between Communists and Socialists culminated a severe spate of military and civilian disorder. It began with a series of violent protests by veterans of Portugal's African wars. They included an abortive attempt to kidnap the Pinheiro de Azevedo Cabinet and peaked when a leftist mob looted and burned the Spanish embassy, consulate and ambassador's residence in Lisbon, causing some $22 million in damages...
Aristotle observed that "drunken and harebrained" women most often had children like themselves, "morose and languid." Eighteenth-century British physicians reported that drinking gin led not only to the widespread debauchery of the time-which was vividly depicted in Hogarth's etchings-but also to a spate of "weak, feeble and distempered children." Modern medicine has only recently confirmed the ancient folklore. Alcoholic mothers often do bear children with a host of birth defects: skull and facial deformations, defects in the cardiovascular system and mental and physical retardation...
...spate of belt-tightening at northeastern universities set off a spate of strikes and demonstrations of a magnitude unseen since...