Word: spate
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Briefly, deliriously, it seemed like old times, as a surprisingly hearty ka-ching kicked off the holiday shopping season. But unlike those of Christmases past, this boom was driven by deep discounts and a spate of patriotic buying--just two signs of how the shadow of Sept. 11 and a bad economy are altering this year's Yuletide...
...Following a spate of sensational news reports on Tokyo runaways earlier this fall, the police belatedly took to the streets. In a highly publicized runaway sweep, 450 officers fanned out over 10 days in mid-September. They found, in all of Tokyo, just 64. By contrast, a reporter in the course of a few hours can find at least half a dozen...
...recent days, a spate of violence directed against Muslim, Arab and South Asian Americans has swept the U.S., in misguided attempts at retaliation for the attacks...
...relationship with Europe. Duncan Smith suffered a setback when he was forced to sack one of his campaigners for far-right links. SPAIN ETA Suspects Held Police arrested 13 suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA but said those held were not thought to be linked to a spate of recent bombings, including one at a tourist hotel in Salou or a boobytrapped toy that killed a woman and blinded her 10-month-old grandson. Interior Minister Mariano Rajoy blamed ETA's youth wing for this instance of kale barroka (street violence), while police connected those arrested...
Just before the Cambrian, however, something big happened. The deep oceans were made oxygen rich and sulfide poor, Knoll believes, when an unusual spate of undersea landslides (triggered by the breakup of a primordial supercontinent) buried megatons of oxygen-consuming debris. Virtually simultaneously, microscopic algae spread far and wide. For the first time since the planet's formation 4 billion years earlier, the oceans were capable of supporting a population of small-, medium- and large-bodied animals...