Word: spate
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With the growth of the Internet as a major form of communication, millions of people across the world can now exchange ideas and transmit information via computer in a matter of seconds. However, the recent spate of hacker-related incidents at Harvard, and throughout the world, have students and administrators worried about the security of the Internet...
...spill is part of a recent spate of lab-related accidents. The Mallinckrodt spill was one of three spills to occur in the past six weeks and one of four in the past six months...
...spate of books such as Peggy Orenstein's Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem and the Confidence Gap and Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia, which spent nearly three years on best-seller lists, triggered a surge of creative solutions. A corporate-sponsored program, Take Our Daughters to Work Day, spread across the U.S. in an effort to encourage girls to examine varied careers. In Lincoln, Neb., teacher Jane Edwards partners with a local architectural firm to challenge high school girls to use technology, math and science to solve design problems. In Aurora, Colo., middle school teacher Pam Schmidt has created Eocene...
Lott was also joined by a majority of his fellow Republicans in a spate of anti-gay amendments to federal spending bills. And in one of the most inane displays of anti-gay prejudice, the Senate has refused to consider the nomination of James Hormel as ambassador to Luxembourg because he is gay and proud. Meanwhile, legislation that would protect gays and lesbians from being fired from their jobs because of their sexual orientation continues to languish in committee...
...Last year we had success utilizing 11 or 12guys who saw action," Mandeau said. "Generallyteams bring six or eight players. The depth of oursquad allows us to compete at a high level evenwith a spate of injuries...