Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...imminent, TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich and Photographer Claude Urraca joined five other journalists in persuading a fishing-boat captain to ferry them to Grenada. They arrived in the capital, St. George's, well before the invading forces reached it. Diederich's exclusive report of the U.S. assault as viewed from behind the defenders' lines, with Urraca's pictures, is part of the special section...
...assault began in two main strikes. At 5:36 a.m. on Tuesday, some 400 Marines aboard troop helicopters from the amphibious assault ship Guam roared into Pearls airport, the island's only functioning airstrip. Thirty-six minutes later, hundreds of U.S. Rangers, the Army's elite special forces, parachuted onto the barricaded, uncompleted 10,000-ft. strip at Point Salines on Grenada's southeastern tip. They had been dispatched from a staging airfield in Barbados, just 160 miles, or 45 minutes, away. Grenada, the once sleepy tourist haven, barely 80 miles off Venezuela in the Caribbean...
Procter & Gamble does everything in a big way. The company is the $12 billion enterprise behind such household names as Charmin, Folger's, Crest and Crisco. When P&G decides to add a new product to this list, competitors view the marketing assault as a D-day invasion, and with good reason. Last week P&G launched Citrus Hill, its entry into the $3 billion market for chilled and frozen orange juice. "There's a year of sunshine in every sip," goes the slogan for the ads that blossomed on TV and in newspapers. The commercials portray...
Garrity also narrowed the scope of a similar order concerning reports of assault and battery received by the University to include non-academic staff only...
...into production. The vaccine works on a principle that has already provided protection against such traditional plagues as smallpox and yellow fever. When they attack human beings or other mammals, most viruses stimulate the invaded system to manufacture tiny protein particles called antibodies. If the system under assault does not have enough of these antibodies or cannot manufacture them fast enough, the victim may die or, with polio, suffer permanent crippling...