Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, last week's offensive was ominous, coming as it did so soon after the death of the moderate pragmatist Chou Enlai. At the very least, the new radical attack raised serious questions about China's ability to transfer power smoothly to new leaders. Certainly, the biggest immediate test facing inexperienced acting Premier Hua will be keeping Peking's quarrelsome factions at peace. Moreover, the biggest test of all-managing the world's most populous country after the death of its feeble 82-year-old Chairman-is yet to come...
...grumbled beforehand that they had not been kept fully informed of the potential dimensions of the bribery revelations. By the time the meeting began, Haughton and Kotchian had drafted a letter, addressed to all Lockheed employees, announcing their resignation. It referred to "the cascading waves of criticism and outright attack that Lockheed and its management have been subjected to" and called for "a new standard of international business conduct." Haughton had been scheduled to retire on his 65th birthday in September, but Kotchian, 61, might have been expected to succeed...
...election; many made corporate donations to the Democrats as well. Northrop Corp., which admitted a $150,000 donation to the Nixon campaign, is a major defense contractor. Three oil companies-Gulf, Phillips and Ashland-gave $100,000 each to Nixon; their industry is under political attack. American Airlines ($55,000) and Braniff Airways ($40,000) are dependent on federal regulators. But there were also companies among the 17 that had no obvious self-interest. Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing, makers of Scotch tape and other products, gave Nixon $30,000. Said former Chairman William L. McKnight: "I don't know that...
Renaissance writers insisted it destroyed grass, tarnished mirrors and dissolved asphalt. The sight of it, Australian aborigines believe, can turn a man's hair gray. Until 1967, campers at Glacier National Park were warned that its odor can incite bears to attack...
Cultural Cure. Statements like that have raised suspicions that the menstruation issue is just one more doctrinaire attack by working feminists on women who are housewives and mothers. "All we know for sure," says Psychologist Pauline Bart of the University of Illinois Medical School, "is that cultural expectations play a role in many menstrual problems. Beyond that it's all cloudy...