Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wanted to attack the pressure and then get into a half-court offense," Yale Coach Dick Kuchen said. "We never did that. When we decided to take a three-point shot or jump shot quickly, that's not our style of play...
...would like to draw your attention to the publication of Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie. This insidious work is an insult to Muslims, but even more, it is a cruel attack on Islam which will feed on the misunderstanding and hatred of Muslims, which already exists due largely to ignorance and the misconstruing of facts regarding Islam...
...University's ability to recruit junior faculty has been under attack for the past several years, as younger academics say that the near-impossibility of being promoted from within Harvard's faculty makes the University a less attractive workplace than many of the other prestigious schools, such as Columbia or the University of California at Berkeley...
...slow the drug trade? Easy answers such as bureaucratic ineptitude and "they're all corrupted by drug money" aren't convincing. Many other countries have succeeded in preventing drugs from becoming a national catastrophe. But our government, as the Washington case demonstrates, has failed because it is unwilling to attack the source of the nation's drug problems: the hopelessness and poverty of the inner city...
Bush is unwilling to attack the demand side of the drug equation, cleaning up the inner city, because it entails renouncing many of his conservative principles. He would have to advocate ending residential segregation, investing much more in inner-city schools and expanding substantive economic opportunities for ghetto residents. While he may be slowly breaking out of the Reagan mold, he still has a very long...