Word: spate
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After the Geoghan story broke, further investigations uncovered a spate of sexual misconduct complaints against dozens of priests in the Archdiocese of Boston...
...garnered a spate of prestigious awards—including several for career contributions to political science—but is most proud of being named one of the nation’s “tweediest” professors by M Magazine...
...some new businesses may open in the short term. But their chances of survival are slim. "Many will be based on unsound foundations without the managerial knowledge taught in the master's courses," says Gerhard Bosch, vice president of the Institute for Labor and Technology in Gelsenkirchen. "A spate of bankruptcies will be the consequence." Bosch also fears that few of these new and probably under-capitalized handicraft businesses will invest in vocational training, thus endangering the future of the crafts tradition itself. And Heinz Putzhammer, a DGB board member, thinks ditching the Meisterbrief may be poor marketing. Putzhammer says...
...still be committed to the principles of jihad. Combined with fundamentalists spread throughout the region, "There are just so many who have the ability to create terror," frets the source close to the Bali investigation. "The threat is very real." And, he adds grimly, the publicity surrounding Indonesia's spate of arrests and trials may well incite a vicious backlash: "These guys want revenge...
...action was prompted by a spate of e-mails protesting the use of the word “slut” to describe an unnamed person who had “hook[ed] up with 47 percent of the football team...