Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rate of assault increased just over five percent in the first 10 months of 1997, but remained down nearly 18 percent since...
...report notes that the increase in assault is "abating." At the end of March, it was up 21 percent; at the end of June, it had scaled back its rate of increase to 12 percent. By September, assaults increased only five percent, the report says...
...alcoholic, and she is trying to pull herself together. Nancy Kerrigan, who took silver in a showdown watched closely by nearly everyone in the world except maybe the judges, has staged a damage-control clinic after being accused of a series of attitude crimes, including an alleged verbal assault on Mickey Mouse. And speaking of assault, Tonya Harding, the truck-driving heroine of that infamous gang of hockey pucks who conspired to conk Kerrigan on the knee--inadvertently adding a booster jet to skating's already soaring popularity--has, depending on the day, seemed just a fast buck away from...
...where women try to escape that rule--in a manner far more complex, nuanced and ambiguous than any summary can reproduce. It is a mistake common to both Morrison's admirers and critics to understand her fiction too quickly. The violent act that begins and ends Paradise--the assault of the men of Ruby on the women in the Convent--cannot be described simply as a feminist parable, as some early reviewers have already dubbed...
...anybody else attempted murder and assault in front of witnesses, chances are he would be sitting in a prison cell, not holding a press conference about how he was unfairly treated. Sprewell may have lost his right to earn millions and play in the NBA, but he should be thankful he's not in jail. SYLVIA SUNG Chicago...