Word: spate
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Across Cambridge a spate of large development projects are quietly nearing the start of construction, assistant city manager for community development David Vickery said yesterday. "You'll see a lot going on in the next year," he promised...
What's more, the current spate of bombings could hurt one of the most promising approaches to working out an eventual settlement in Ireland: the hopes of Garret FitzGerald, who became Prime Minister of the Republic of Ireland in June, to pave the way for eventual unification of Ulster and the republic. FitzGerald would like to see the establishment of an Anglo-Irish council, including Protestant and Catholic representatives from Ulster and members of the British and Irish parliaments, to promote better relations between Britain, Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. This week FitzGerald is scheduled to meet with...
...inextricably tangled between aesthetics, money and ideas. But dealing with ideas, at least on the level this subject needs, is not Wolfe's forte. As in The Painted Word, he ends up doing what he accuses his bogies of: the meaning of the work is drowned in a spate of "theory," and each time the theory is undercut by Wolfe's stridently commonsensical attitudes. These, after a while, read like condescension, as a rigid adherence to the surface usually does. Plus ça change, plus c'est la méme pose. -By Robert Hughes
...have assassinated some 200 officials and clerical leaders since June, Khomeini has responded with a campaign to round up and execute political enemies. The toll thus far: over 1,000 killed and 10,000 imprisoned. Observers in Tehran believe adverse reactions both within Iran and abroad to the spate of killing have driven Khomeini's forces to adopt the late Shah's clandestine methods...
...until Verba and his package of new rules arrive to lift the Faculty's meeting schedule out of the doldrums, it looks as if there may be another spate of cancellation notices. At least, that's what John R. Marquand, secretary to the Faculty, predicts. He contrasts this year with last, when--despite the three cancellations--the technology transfer issue got the Faculty off to a "'rip-roaring start" and heated debate about minority hiring and the Third World Foundation kept things interesting. Just one factor prevented the Faculty from meeting more often: a widespread belief that a body...