Word: spate
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...great debate spate. Not since the heyday of vaudeville have so many performers appeared together on so many different stages. After enduring roughly 50 debates, a numbed voter might rightly ask, "Where was the beef?" About the only beneficiaries of this orgy of oratory were Bush and Jackson. As the Vice President again seems to be turning himself into Mr. Maladroit, it is easy to forget how his hyperaggressive debate posture put a crimp in all the wimp talk. Jackson's dominance of the Democratic debates helped him narrow his credibility gap as a serious contender. There were also casualties...
ILFC's mammoth order is an enormous boon to Boeing, which has been reeling from a spate of bad publicity. An Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 ripped open over - Hawaii last month, and several airlines have voiced concerns about quality control on production of the Seattle-based company's 747 and 767 models. ILFC ordered 78 737s, nine 757s, nine 767s and four 747s for $3.7 billion. Europe's Airbus, which has been making inroads in the U.S. market, expressed satisfaction with its $1.3 billion share of the ILFC contract. The only real loser was St. Louis-based McDonnell Douglas...
Though I'm sure by now Thomas D. Warren's opinion piece, "Senior Gift is Apolitical" (April 12) has prompted a spate of replies, out here in the wilds of Berkeley California, the Crimson doesn't arrive until about two weeks after it arrives on Cambridge thresholds, so I'm responding as promptly as possible...
Responding to a spate of hooliganism in 1985, 18 of baseball's 26 teams (including the Dodgers) have closed their bars after the seventh or eighth ^ inning, twelve have instituted nondrinking "family" sections, and a few have decreased the alcohol content of the beer and banned carry-ins. In Baltimore the unofficial Oriole mascot, beer-bellied Cabdriver Wild Bill Hagy, ceremoniously tossed his cooler off the upper deck in protest. "While it may have a number of social causes," says National League President Bart Giamatti, "fan unruliness cannot be separated from the issue of excessive use of alcohol. I have...
...time, but never with such haste and malign glee. Traditionally such books were more concerned with the virtues of policy than the vagaries of personality. Rarely were they published while a President was in office. Moreover, the archetypal insider stories were more kiss than tell: most, such as the spate of Roosevelt and Kennedy books, were unabashed hagiographies...