Word: assaultive
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...never disputed elections in the parts of Tennessee it now claims. Nor has it provided infrastructure, tried to collect taxes or even challenged official maps delineating the state lines. Tennessee lawmakers have flatly rejected any possibility of border talks and in their own resolution condemned Georgia for its "heinous assault on the sovereignty of Tennessee...
...sure that the Democratic race will be rough from here on out. Clinton's victories in Texas and Ohio - states where her campaign estimates Obama and his allies outspent her by more than 2 to 1 on advertising alone - came only after she ramped up her assault on Obama. Her previous sweetness was getting her nothing but declining poll numbers. Clinton questioned her opponent's honesty after it was reported that an adviser had assured Canadian government officials that Obama didn't really mean his anti-free-trade rhetoric. "The old wink-wink," Clinton said scornfully. Four days before...
...Gaza, news of the seminary killing was greeted with celebratory gunfire, cars honking their horns, and people passing out candy in the streets. Sami Abu Zuheri, a spokesman for the Hamas militant group, said: "This martyr attack was in response to the Israeli assault on Gaza." Last week, more than 110 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli offensive aimed at stopping militants from firing rockets into southern Israel. Three Israelis also died during the fighting...
...drug war has ravaged law enforcement too. In cities where police agencies commit the most resources to arresting their way out of their drug problems, the arrest rates for violent crime - murder, rape, aggravated assault - have declined. In Baltimore, where we set The Wire, drug arrests have skyrocketed over the past three decades, yet in that same span, arrest rates for murder have gone from 80% and 90% to half that. Lost in an unwinnable drug war, a new generation of law officers is no longer capable of investigating crime properly, having learned only to make court pay by grabbing...
...Last weekend's ground assault into Gaza, which involved over 1,000 troops and 100 armored vehicles, backed by helicopter gunships, jet-fighters and drones, has encouraged some military planners to think that an even bigger offensive into the enclave of 1.5 million Palestinians could be mounted without causing unacceptable casualty levels. One senior officer told TIME that "Operation Warm Winter" succeeded in cordoning off more than 40,000 people inside Gaza's Jabaliya refugee camp, without encountering heavy resistance from Hamas and other militant groups. The Israelis say they arrested more than 30 militants in Jabaliya, and found large...