Word: assail
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nitpicking Rules? One question is why Andersen, of all firms, should assail the SEC's effort to back up the F.A.S.B. Andersen has long argued for more uniformity in accounting procedures, and its executives played a key role in setting up the F.A.S.B. But the company also has long been an aggressive maverick. Some competitors grumble privately that it is merely seeking publicity, and Price Waterhouse's brief publicly refers to "Andersen's past attacks on the accounting profession." Andersen Chairman Harvey E. Kapnick Jr. protests that his company is merely trying to preserve the profession...
Undoubtedly, an army of concerned mothers, irate women's liberationists, shocked clergymen, and uncloseted homosexuals will flock to assail the moral and ethical character of TIME for having the audacity to publish this cover...
...with about 100 Texas Republicans amid the Rose Garden's blooming magnolias and promised that "the U.S. [military] is going to be No. 1, as it is." Later he defended his foreign policy before a group of conservative Senators at the White House. But Ford probably will not assail Reagan stridently. Explains an aide to the President: "He's got to pave the way for Reagan and his supporters to jump aboard his campaign at some point"-at the convention or at least before the November election...
...every recent measure of public sentiment, the economy is far and away the dominant political issue of 1976. Though many more Americans worry about inflation than unemployment, concern over jobs ranks well ahead of any noneconomic issue, including crime and detente. Democrats assail President Ford for a lack of urgent action on jobs; Ford and most Republicans respond that the recovery is strong and no costly emergency program is needed...
...such doubts assail the two leads. Harrison is letter-perfect, which is not too surprising since Sebastian is simply Henry Higgins 18 years older. His nasal drawl, his lounge-lizard posture, his Swiss-clock comic timing are on superb display. Harris matches him. She seems to have discovered the secret that eluded Ponce de Leon. With each passingplay, she appears more youthful -her face lineless, her figure trim, her carriage gracefully girlish. In acting subservient to her husband while deftly stage-managing everything, she strongly recalls those '30s heroines of S.N. Behrman's comedies who used...