Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latest assault by the tobaccocompanies--including Philip Morris and RJR--hasbeen on formerly closed markets in Japan, Korea,Taiwan and China. In all these countries tobaccoimports were prohibited or severely restricted inrecent years. In Korea, for example, it was acriminal offense to carry an imported pack ofcigarettes...
...televised debate Sunday night. Regardless of whose sound bites were better or whose memorized one-liner was catchier, Dukakis clearly showed that he was taking the homeless issue seriously. Such concern would be a welcome change after what Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) once called "a seven-year assault on federal housing policies by the Reagan Administration"--policies which are in large measure responsible for the huge numbers of displaced persons walking our streets...
Eyewitnesses, who charged that soldiers at an army compound across the street from the church had watched the assault without interceding, identified many of the attackers as men who work for Romain, a tough former colonel who told Radio Metropole that Aristide was a rabble-rouser who got what he deserved. Haitians now hope that Avril's new government will put a stop to the bloodletting...
...know they will cut back on the freedoms of the American people. Drug legislation plus election year posturing equals an assault on the Constitution," Edwards said...
Reynolds ran out of the bar, but Cambridge police arrested him at the corner of JFK and Eliot streets. He was charged with disorderly conduct and assault and battery with a bottle, according to Cambridge Police crime analyst Richard Sevieri...