Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hurricane's weeklong assault began at 1 a.m. on Sunday as its 140-m.p.h. shriek shattered the sleep of the 340,000 residents and uncounted tourists on Guadeloupe. "There's nothing left of St. Francois," reported the resort town's mayor, Ernest Moutoussamy. Eleven people were killed...
...President's plan to crack down on such "casual" drug users, like Gitell's call for more aggresive University Police action against drugs, amounts to a massive assault on the privacy of students, for the sake of controlling a drug which generates little specific gang violence and is, according to some scientific evidence, safer than alcohol. Harvard needs to be a critic and conscientious objector, not an enthusiastic recruit. John Rigsby...
...course free speech is important, but clean hallways are nice, too. The majority employs an arsenal of editorial hyperbole--"travesty" and "censor-ship"--but completely ignores any chance for reasonable compromise. The house masters' decision is not an assault on the Bill of Rights. It is only a shortsighted effort to keep things tidy. Student publications, solicited or not, certainly deserve to be read by students, yet central bins or baskets might prove to be viable alternatives. In any event, the Masters are justified in wanting cleaner hallways. Unfortunately, the Crimson has adopted a knee-jerk position in a zealous...
...Proposition 1-2-3 is an outright assault on women's economic security," said Jennifer Jackman, president of the Massachusetts chapter of National Organization for Women...
Throughout history, would-be pioneers and developers have discovered just how unreceptive the Amazon can be. Henry Ford tried twice to carve rubber empires out of the rain forest in the 1920s and '30s. But when the protective canopy was cut down, the rubber trees withered under the assault of sun, rain and pests. In 1967 Daniel Ludwig, an American billionaire, launched a rashly ambitious project to clear 2.5 million acres of forest and plant Gmelina trees for their timber. He figured that the imported species would not be susceptible to Brazil's pests. Ludwig was wrong...