Word: spates
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...early to tell whether those threats will be acted upon or are merely the words of brigands feeling stung after getting their way for so long. The pirates have had uninterrupted rule of Somalia's seas for several months, and a spate of recent attacks suggests they are broadening their range to well beyond the Gulf of Aden to several hundred miles off the Somali coast. They once portrayed themselves as a coast guard for a country that has no government, and said they were striking back against fishing boats that illegally fished and dumped toxic waste in their waters...
...many bishops are treating parishes as if they were Starbucks franchises. It's about more than money.' CHRISTINE SCHENK, a Cleveland-area nun, denouncing a spate of church closures due to depopulation and financial strains...
...Even more surprising, relatively few of them are musicals, with their ready-made tourist appeal. And while there's the usual spate of revivals - from crowd-pleasing chestnuts (Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, starring a blithely ageless Angela Lansbury) to more challenging rediscoveries (Ionesco's Exit the King, with an all-stops-out performance by Geoffrey Rush) - what's really striking is the number of new plays that think they've found a home on the Great White Way. (See the top 10 plays and musicals...
...This spate of security disruptions is widely believed to be the work of dissident republican terrorists - such as the Real IRA and Continuity IRA - and their supporters, who are all opposed to Northern Ireland's power-sharing government. It was these same groups who claimed responsibility for the murders of two British soldiers and a police officer in March. Three men - including a 17-year-old - have since been charged with the killings, and on April 2 a 19-year-old man was arrested in connection to the soldiers' murders. (See pictures of the British Army leaving Northern Ireland...
Nope, no real chance of that. But a spate of somewhat better-than-expected economic numbers this week and last has forecasters declaring that the pace of decline seems to have slowed. Such a slowing has to happen before things start to improve. Which could mean that we're seeing the beginning of the beginning of the end of this nasty recession. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...