Word: assaultive
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...Eleven days had passed without a major assault on one such station in central Ramadi when suddenly a mortar slammed into a door leading to an outside toilet. The yells rose even before the sound of the massive blast faded. An Iraqi policeman dangling a bloody arm yowled in Arabic as he ambled down a corridor away from the smoke and dust of the explosion. Worried shouts and the barking of orders surrounded one of the American wounded as he lay on his back in the same hall, bleeding heavily. Another wounded American sat stunned with blood flowing from...
IDENTIFIED. Mark Goudeau, 42, former construction worker, as the alleged "Baseline Killer" who terrorized the Phoenix, Ariz., area with a string of assaults and shootings over 10 months starting in the summer of 2005; by police who cited DNA and ballistics evidence linking Goudeau, in custody since September on related sexual-assault charges, to the murders; in Phoenix. Named for the street on which the early attacks took place, the murderer left eight women and one man dead. When formally charged, Goudeau, who says he is innocent, could face 71 criminal counts, including nine of first-degree murder...
...raping a 22-year-old Filipino woman in the back of a van in November 2005; in Makati City, the Philippines. Three U.S. soldiers and a Filipino driver were cleared of complicity in the attack on the woman, who testified she was too drunk on the evening of the assault to consent to sex. Smith is the first American marine to be convicted of rape in the country since 1998, when the two countries signed the Visiting Forces Agreement, which in part governs the treatment of U.S. servicemen in criminal cases. Smith's lawyers have appealed the verdict...
Hospital executives are responding to the assault of specialists by building and aggressively marketing profitable "service lines," like cancer, heart and brain centers. They're snapping up $1.4 million computed tomography (CT) scanners, which produce palpably detailed, 3-D pictures of bones and organs, and $2.2 million "high field" MRI machines that can watch the brain at work. The inflationary dynamic spawned by this expansion of health-care capacity exposes flaws in the payment system that sustains U.S. health care. Those flaws partly explain why Americans spend $2 trillion, or 16% of their GDP, for medical care, an outlay that...
...Although the Daily Trojan is not totally fiscally independent, its daily production has historically been student-run. Regardless of the formal level of independence of the paper, a meddling administration undermines the educational value of student journalism. Interventions like this assault the core values of student newspapers—objectivity and comprehensive coverage. They compromise journalistic integrity and tarnish the development of the next generation of journalists...