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Thus the antibiotic revolution produced a spate of mergers in the '40s and '50s, breakthroughs in heart and digestive drugs produced mergers in the '70s, and the genetic revolution is producing mergers in the '90s.
This is the latest in a spate of high-profile exhumations.
Gabriel Schoenfeld, in an article for the June issue of that magazine, "Auschwitz and the Professors," deplores a recent spate of books and studies written by women (and a few men) he calls "feminist Holocaustologians," who indulge in "witless and malicious theorizing" and "the worst excesses" of a discipline--Holocaust Studies--he has no use for to begin with.
An example the LAT gives is the recent spate of web sites that facilitate the sale of Viagra to those logging on and filling out a questionnaire.
This explains the recent spate of governmental (and intergovernmental) attacks on the Net.