Word: spate
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Catalano refused to speculate on whether the recent spate of calls could be related to these previous complaints...
...says almost to himself, "you can't think about the past. You only think about your future in heaven." But there is at least one aspect of the immediate future that Marwan does not want to contemplate: the collateral damage he may cause to fellow Iraqis. In the recent spate of bombings, many of the victims have been harmless bystanders. "I pray no innocent people are killed in my mission," he says. "But if some are, I know when they arrive in heaven, Allah will ask them to forgive...
...takes to change out the engine on a humvee. The Army could also use transponders similar to the ones NASCAR installs in cars to track their positions in a race, so military commanders can monitor all their vehicles on the battlefield. And amid an Army investigation into a recent spate of rollovers in Iraq that may have been caused by tacked-on, top-heavy armor, the service hopes to build on NASCAR engineering to reduce rollovers for the next generation of vehicles that will replace the 20-year-old humvee...
...Hall of the People in Peking. At stake were the future of China's political leadership and the fate of its economic reforms. By the end of the Communist Party conference, 131 senior officials, mostly in their 70s and 80s, had agreed to step down from high positions. That spate of resignations, the biggest party shake-up in nearly a decade, prepared the way for the rise of a new generation of leaders who will guide China into the 21st century...
...period that followed, assassination bids against moderate PL.O. representatives increased sharply in Western Europe. The Abu Nidal organization began a series of assaults against Jordanian officials and diplomats and launched a spate of anti-Jewish rampages in European cities. In 1981 and 1982 they attacked synagogues in Vienna and Rome, and bombed Jo Goldenberg's famed Paris restaurant and delicatessen...