Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demand-and prices -only kept moving higher. From November 1967 through last April, the Federal Reserve Board raised the discount rate three times, boosting it from 4% to 5½%, a 39-year high. The board later dropped the rate to 5¼% , but last week, declaring a new assault on inflation, it lifted the rate again to 5½%. Whether the rise will have any rapid effect is debatable. The causes of inflation are deep, and it will take time to root them...
Haroz described the incident: "Leininger threatened me with force to take the signs down, although the only force he used was to put his hand on my arm." He added that this was "legally an assault...
...Fatah's signal, a band of Arabs sets out across the Jordan River on rafts made from tractor tires, carrying their Russian-made Kalashnikov assault rifles in waterproof inner tubes. In the darkness they land, make their way inland, plant a mine, ambush an Israeli patrol or throw a grenade, then scramble as best they can for home. The odds are heavily against their making it back, for many are caught or killed by efficient Israeli security forces. But the rewards are high, as posthumous compensations go. They are martyrs to all Arabs, their photographs and tales of their...
...spite of these statements-which no other liberal Russian writer has made -some specialists feel that the present assault on Evtushenko is an exercise in overkill. "Why pick on Evtushenko?" asks Wayne State University's Vera Dunham, a leading specialist in Russian poetry. "He has never done anyone any real harm. It would make more sense to denounce the men actually responsible for putting Russian writers on trial, and examine the society that made Evtushenko what he is-a brash conformist and rather uncultured Soviet young man." Professor Dunham believes that his critics have no right to expect Evtushenko...
...whooping band of raiders wounded two officers and kidnaped a deputy sheriff and a newsman. Although the state police were swiftly mobilized and augmented by a National Guard force with tanks, Tijerina's people slipped away. Arrested later, Tijerina and nine companions were charged with kidnaping and assault. He came to trial last week. As the jury selection began, Tijerina fired his attorney and decided to represent himself...