Sexual assaults have been epidemic at the station, where about 40,000 recruits complete boot camp each year.
Insider trading was epidemic at the time, thanks to a buoyant market and a merger mania that gave investment bankers control over the fates of large corporations.
What Knewton offers is a way to automate the drudgery of delivering basic skills, the lack of which is epidemic at colleges.
Its aim was to determine the causes of cardiovascular disease, which at midcentury was epidemic but poorly understood.
It was an epidemic, at the time, and everywhere I was turning I was seeing crack, crack, crack, and I thought 'Wow, wait a minute.
That was the first problem in deciding whether there was an epidemic at Dartmouth.
"It is an epidemic at this point, and, unfortunately, it feeds upon itself," said Mr. Paley, whose group has renovated and sold about 300 houses over 29 years but now is in crisis mode.
My personal research, while far from scientific, suggests that this is an epidemic at McDonald's.
"Self-harming is at epidemic level among young people: at Childline we hear from them every day.
"There does seem to be a closure epidemic at the moment," says Tony Butchart-Kelly of the Albert Kennedy Trust, a charity that works with at-risk LGBT youth.
