Word: spate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MOST STRIKING fact that emerged from the spate of campus demonstrations this spring was the inability of the administration to respond gracefully to student complaints. Student movements lately have ranged from the most self-serving to the most al truistic--from law School students sitting-in to protest a grading policy change to rallies in support of divestiture. But University administrators have fueled almost all of them by giving students the impression that they don't give a damn...
...general language of the OECD communique glossed over a spate of specific conflicts among nations. Though the delegates renounced protectionism, their governments have been quicker to build trade barriers than to tear them down. The U.S. slapped a heavy tariff on Japanese motorcycles last month, and Western Europe pressured the Japanese to limit exports of light trucks, machine tools and television tubes. American officials have made no progress in persuading the European nations to reduce the subsidies that help boost their agricultural exports...
...spate of detailed disclosures in the past few years about the CIA's dirty work has shown that covert projects, even if successful, can result in resentment of U.S. influence. The absurd lengths to which it can be stretched were revealed last week in the West German parliament when members of the antinuclear Green Party charged that the U.S. was responsible for the death of a West German doctor who was executed by contras in Nicaragua two weeks ago. Party Leader Petra Kelly raised a banner in front of the speaker's podium reading: SUPPORTING THE U.S.A. MEANS...
Anti-semitic violence has tripled since 1981 at the University of Texas, according to anti-defamation officials there, and a recent spate of vandalism and violence has students there particularly concerned...
...wettest springs ever. Swollen by heavy rain and snow runoff in the mountains, Utah's Great Salt Lake is projected to peak at 4,204 ft. above sea level in June, nearly a foot more than officials estimated only months ago. The culprit: a spate of unseasonably cool, moist weather that has prevented evaporation, which normally acts to counterbalance the effects of the runoff. Damages to property and roadway, now estimated at $20 million to $30 million, could go as high as $264 million this year. Salt water has begun to eat away at the dikes protecting the nine...