Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...That doesn't seem to be McCain's way, however. He is all bluster and impatience. If nothing else, his assault on Obama has renewed questions about whether McCain has the temperament to be President. A few years ago, in friendlier times, the Senator and I talked about the Cuban missile crisis. At a crucial moment, John F. Kennedy received two messages from the Soviets - one bellicose, one accommodating. He chose to ignore the bellicose message and very likely saved the world. "You probably would've chosen the wrong message," I teased McCain. "I probably would have," he laughed...
...third assault on an undergraduate since reading period began, a male student was the victim of a violent attack while walking near Leverett House at nine o’clock on yesterday morning, according to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD...
Microsoft is under assault in every direction, and losing the battle on any number of fronts. That's why it's so desperate to come to terms - any terms - with Yahoo. The software giant went back to Yahoo yesterday to suggest a joint venture that would give Microsoft a position in Yahoo's search business. We're supposed to believe that Yahoo - thanks to Carl Icahn's proxy battle to replace Yahoo's board - is feeling the heat. But it's Microsoft that has everything to lose here. The barbarians are at the gates, and Gates (as in Bill...
...spiraling in the direction of the narco-terror that gripped Colombia in the 1980s and the early 1990s. Mexico's cartels, including the Sinaloa gang's main rival, the Gulf Cartel, have in recent years raised the scale of the bloodletting by introducing such weapons as grenades, AK-47 assault rifles and bazookas, as well as ghastly methods like mass beheadings...
...February, a Sinaloa operative was killed and another injured during a botched attempt to detonate a bomb outside a Mexico City police headquarters - a portent that the mafias may be poised to unleash the kind of frontal guerrilla assault on law enforcement seen in Colombia two decades ago. "Each year, the violence takes on distinct new dimensions," says Victor Clark Alfaro, a security expert at the Binational Human Rights Center in Tijuana. "It's like fighting guerrillas - it often defies understanding...