Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roots conservative movement from his computer nerve center in Falls Church, Va. And indeed the spirits of the right are soaring after the triumph of the G.O.P. at the polls last month. Hardly taking time out to celebrate, the groups composing the conservative alliance are already preparing for another assault on the liberals in 1982. Not only are they taking aim again at some Democratic Senators, but they have added a sprinkling of Republicans to their list. They are also thinking of going after key Democratic leaders in the House. Asserts Terry Dolan, head of the National Conservative Political Action...
...reggae tune and sarcastic lyrics combine to assault both the new punk wave he couldn't tackle and the power pop which threatened to box him in. Between the two, Jackson has staked out new musical territory to accompany his apocalyptic vision of English society. Even when his lyrics border on the ridiculous, he can still harness them in a deeper and more soulful voice. "Someone Up There" does not like him, belying the suggestive title. Jackson finds he cannot alter fate, nor find a rational explanation for his girl's departure. But instead of letting the cliched idea...
Four-digit fever has swept Wall Street periodically since Dec. 31, 1976, when the Dow Jones average of 30 leading industrial stocks last cracked the 1,000-point level. But rarely had an assault on the magic barrier been more furious-or inconclusive-than the trading melee that last week nudged the Dow briefly, and by the barest fraction, into quadruple digits...
...evening also saw a B.U. assault on the record books with freshmen Barb Sumner and Sue Kitchen, and junior Shawn McCluskey, blazing the path towards five new team and pool records...
UNWILLING TO WAIT even for the arrival of their new conservative brethren, the men and woman of the U.S. Senate, under the inspiring direction of Strom Thurmond, last week launched a vigorous and vicious assault on racial justice and the United States Constitution...