Word: assaults
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Those in the Third World who perceive an oppressive and powerful American involvement in the affairs of their country are precisely those who would risk their own lives in some extremist assault on that presence. Although isolated acts of terrorism are unlikely to remedy the fundamental imbalance of power between relatively helpless groups of citizens and entrenched governments, it is the sad truth that such attacks have successfully focused attention on the claims of those who had previously gone ignored. However illegitimate and distasteful a forum, terrorism is a megaphone for the voices of the disgruntled...
Even as the assault began on tax reform, scores of other special interests mobilized to sink the wish list of spending cuts floated by Budget Director David Stockman. Rarely if ever have so many of Washington's more than 10,000 lobbyists been aroused at the same time. Indeed, the Administration's sweeping proposals may have touched off the ultimate lobbying war, one that will force Congressmen to choose between uplifting notions like "fairness" and "simplicity," and down-to-earth concerns like PAC money and political survival...
...Ethiopia famine this fall needs to be approached as part of a comprehensive assault on-poverty and famine throughout the continent...
...present assault seems easy enough to explain away. Martin Luther King's birthday takes a whole day out of exam period: Christmas and New Years fall on Tuesday: and in the thirty-eight weeks between the third Monday in September and thirty-eighth Thursday after that, called Commencement, must fit two exam periods, 166 or 167 teaching days, and holidays for assorted national holidays...
...main pleasures of Superman is watching him bash buildings, save trains, and most important, commit assault on people in amusing ways. The cartoon violence in Supergirl is so tepid that we can only wonder if Szware was worried about in timidating males insecure about muscle bound women. The persons Supergirl bashes are two painfully stereotypical redneck truckers with ungentlemanly designs on Supergirl's too, too solid flesh. She can't even bring herself to hit the amazingly unthreatening invisible monster that tears up the countryside, choosing for some unknown reason a more ladylike lightning bolt. And why is it that...