Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than a year, the government of President Jose Sarney has been under relentless attack from environmental activists worldwide. They charge that its policies are not only resulting in the wanton destruction of Brazil's forest, its wildlife and its native peoples, but are also endangering the world environment. Scientists say the fires set by ranchers and homesteaders in the Amazon region are spewing into the atmosphere 7% of the carbon dioxide responsible for the global warming process known as the greenhouse effect...
...below the surface of the chilly Norwegian Sea, perhaps as deep as 2,000 ft., the submarine was running quietly and swiftly. With its tough titanium hull and liquid-metal-cooled nuclear reactors, the 361-ft. Mike-class vessel was one of the deepest-diving and fastest-running attack subs in Moscow's fleet. Then, late one morning last week, a submariner's worst nightmare became reality: fire broke out. The sub managed to reach the surface about 320 miles off the northern coast of Norway. As it wallowed, many of the 95 crew members rushed to life rafts...
...time has not been kind either to the Floyd-Bells, Church-Smiths and other conscientiously nonsexist, nonconformist couples who embraced hyphenation in the '70s as a banner of equality. The ubiquitous computer, for example, often seems incapable of recognizing hyphens. Says a Citibank spokesman: "This is not an insidious attack on our part. It's a program problem." Bureaucracies would rather set aside the mark altogether. In Bayside, N.Y., Dana Wissner- Levy, a graduate student at Hofstra University, had to take her battle to the school president before the registrar's office agreed to accept her hyphen...
...took the initiative in the second stanza with a goal in the first five minutes while the Harvard attack passed and played but just couldn't stick the ball...
...have to find an attack when we're under pressure," McAnaney said. "We rush the ball and don't take the shots we want and, as a result, we let them dominate the ball...