Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vellucci said he hoped the tree would recover from this latest assault, which he called an attempt at "murder...
WASHINGTON. A barrage of gunfire erupts just outside Woodrow Wilson High School as classes are dismissed for the day. Four students are shot, but all survive. Later, a teen-age boy who is not enrolled at Wilson is convicted of assault with a deadly weapon. The spark for the mayhem: an argument over a seat in the school cafeteria...
...American, British and Soviet leaders met at Yalta at a time when the Red Army had liberated most of Eastern Europe from Hitler's troops and were poised to take Berlin. Although the ailing Roosevelt knew that the U.S. could soon assault Japan with the first atom bomb, his top military advisers doubted that its use would be immediately decisive. An American priority at Yalta was to ensure Japan's quick defeat by persuading Stalin to join the Far East conflict once Germany surrendered...
What I and the audience members actually discussed were the troubling difficulties of using an administrative process to address an incident of sexual assault, and my personal concern that women, intimidated by the official status of deans and the unknown mechanics of Ad Board process, might choose not to act on their own behalf. It was my goal at this panel to inform women about the people and procedures involved in pursuing the formal administrative process so that they might, if they wished, be able to use that process with a minimum of anxiety and apprehension...
...difficult enough to make our formal complaint processes accessible to those who may be feeling vulnerable and frightened after assault or harassment. Careless reporting only augments this difficulty and increases the distance between administrators and students. Janet A. Viggiani Assistant Dean for Coeducation