Word: widespread
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Despite the aid, refugees are discovering that assimilation is far from automatic. There are the usual problems of language and loneliness. The months and often years spent in the crowded squalor of the resettlement camps have taken their toll: malnutrition is widespread, and cases of tuberculosis are found...
Israel's air and artillery raids bring widespread condemnation
...unprecedented civil rights suit filed in federal district court in Philadelphia, the Justice Department accused Rizzo of pursuing just that kind of policy. The 28-page complaint charges the mayor, other top officials of the city and its 7,866-officer police department with following "procedures which result in widespread, arbitrary and unreasonable physical abuse or abuse which shocks the conscience." The suit accuses officers of systematically beating handcuffed prisoners, unjustifiably shooting unarmed suspects, "inflicting disproportionate abuse upon black persons and persons of Hispanic origin," and failing to investigate complaints of brutality...
...Zambia is to avoid widespread famine, it will need 300,000 tons of corn by the end of the year. Kenya has offered 100,000 tons, but this would have to be transported-inefficiently, and perhaps tardily-by road from Kenya and then along the Tazara Railway. Thus Zambia is relying on South Africa for corn and on Zimbabwe-Rhodesia to deliver the food shipments by rail...
...widespread whining about Washington's raising of thermostats to a mandatory 78°F suggests that people no longer think of interior coolness as an amenity but consider it a necessity, almost a birthright, like suffrage. The existence of such a view was proved last month when a number of federal judges, sitting too high and mighty to suffer 78°, defied and denounced the Government's energy-saving order to cut back on cooling. Significantly, there was no popular outrage at this judicial insolence; many citizens probably wished that they could be so highhanded...