Word: spate
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...worst of all is the fear that the spate of criminal violence may be just the beginning. "We have reached a point when separating state officials from corrupted journalists and gangsters has almost become impossible," Sasa Lekovic, a prominent Croatian investigative journalist told TIME. "I'm afraid that this...
Stocks continued to slide despite a spate of actions yesterday by Asian governments to stem financial volatility, boost economies and prop up markets. The People's Bank of China cut interest rates for the second time in three weeks, while reducing the reserve requirement ratio for most banks. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Hong Kong's de facto central bank, also reduced the interest rate at which it lends to banks by a full percentage point in an attempt to ease credit markets. In India, policymakers promised to continue to act to keep the financial sector functioning. "If need...
...Following this spate of crimes, students said they have mixed feelings about Harvard’s ability to protect their property...
...ship, so we stopped it," said Sugule Ali, the spokesman for a band of pirates that on Sept. 25 hijacked the MV Faina, a Ukrainian freighter packed with Soviet-made tanks, grenade launchers, ammunition and other high-grade weaponry. The seizure was perhaps the most brazen in a recent spate of attacks on vessels crossing the world's most treacherous waters. According to the International Maritime Bureau, pirates have carried off 63 attacks and 26 hijackings off the coast of Somalia so far this year, seizing 534 crew members; 12 ships and 259 sailors (including 20 aboard the Faina) remain...
Given the spate of costume dramas that have hit the big screen recently, you could be forgiven for failing to distinguish one silk-clad heroine from another. And “The Duchess”—based on the biography of the same name by Amanda Foreman—does little to make the dazzling Georgiana of Devonshire stand out from the crowd. Like “Marie Antoinette” and “The Other Boleyn Girl,” “The Duchess” is a period film about a beautiful, young, aristocratic...