Word: assaults
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Just when it seemed that Emily Stauffer had finally ended her assault on national honors, she has added another notch to her seemingly end less belt of awards...
Besides, the DeLay camp says, a vote to impeach the President is the perfect inoculation for moderate Republicans under assault from conservatives in their districts. Assuming, as almost everyone in Washington does, that Clinton would survive a Senate trial, moderates who voted to impeach wouldn't have to worry about a backlash. "What DeLay's been saying is, 'This vote isn't going to hurt you; it will mean conservatives won't bother you anymore,'" says a source close to the Texan. For some moderates, that could be an important consideration. Marge Roukema, a New Jersey Republican known...
MIKE TYSON Pleads no contest to assault; parole officer won't be pleased. He'll fight again, but in a ring...
ACQUITTED. CHRIS WEBBER, 25, Sacramento Kings basketball star; of marijuana possession, assault and resisting arrest. Maryland police officers said they subdued Webber when he tried to prevent them from opening his car door. Webber claimed he was on the phone to his lawyer when police yanked him from...
...million project, like the Suez Canal that preceded it, was an epic assault on nature that employed as many as 43,400 workers at a time--many of whom succumbed to yellow fever while clearing the mosquito-infested swamps. More than 211 million cu. yds. of earth and rock were moved to unite the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The canal cut the voyage from New York to California by 7,800 miles. Leased by the U.S., it returns to Panamanian sovereignty...