The unemployment was rife and the cost of food had escalated.

Violations of these rights still abound.

Violations cited were particularly prevalent in the mining and oil exploration sectors.

In the former communist countries, private crime was virtually non existent, but state crime was rampant.

Malaria continues to rage throughout the tropical world, despite the availability of highly effective measures for prevention and treatment.

Banditry continues to plague Darfur's main roads, especially on the Nyala Geneina road.

Human rights violations in the form of violence are pervasive throughout the OPT as a result of the protracted conflict and occupation.

Unemployment is rampant, the social safety net is non existent, and social and economic hardship could at any moment turn into a threat to political stability.

But it's a technology so pervasive, so invisible, that we, for a long time, forgot to take it into account when we talked about human evolution.

So rampant were the equivocations, untruths, and outright lies from both camps that many media outlets and non partisan groups maintained running lists of factual distortions.

This year, we ve gotten a taste of the many kinds of dangers that lie ahead more extreme hurricanes, massive droughts, forest fires, spreading infectious diseases, and floods.

BERKELEY Complaints about the inflationary effects of American monetary policy are rampant, despite there being barely a hint of inflation in the United States.

Many bloggers tried to interpret the reasons behind what seemed like sudden protests, citing the unequal economic situation as well as high unemployment among youth, plaguing countries in Africa and the Middle East.

The report, moreover, seemed to be based on too narrow an interpretation of discrimination, even though indirect forms of discrimination, such as equal access for women to credit, remained pervasive.

The Millennium Declaration and the Brussels Programme of Action offer realistic ways forward to effectively overcome such worldwide scourges as poverty, global warming, HIV AIDS, malaria, cancer and other fatal diseases, particularly as they affect poorer Member States.

Ours is a time characterized, as never before, by the parallel existence of unbounded wealth and unrelievable poverty, of major scientific breakthroughs and pervasive illiteracy, of overwhelming gestures of kindness and charity and of atrocious acts of wickedness and inhumanity.