Word: counterattack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, the Lions tend to play a defensive-oriented game, sacrificing their offense in order to cut down the scoring opportunities against. An early goal, therefore, is a key for the Crimson. It cannot afford to stay tied late in the game and then risk a game-losing counterattack...
...then -- the moment of truth. In the past, when the Serbs have responded to a NATO air strike by shelling civilians and taking hostages, NATO has made threats but backed down. This time, would the strikes continue, hostages or no? Following the Serbian bridge attack and French counterattack, there were hints of more bombing, notably from U.S. Secretary of Defense William Perry, who cut short a visit to Italy to meet with his British and German counterparts at London's Gatwick airport on Saturday. At a news conference, Perry declared that the credibility of the international community was at stake...
Many parents accused of sexual abuse on the basis of recovered memories do not have the means to launch a legal counterattack. Instead, they are turning to the False Memory Syndrome Foundation in Philadelphia to find a way to counter the allegations. They have also joined others to form a separate group that is lobbying for repeal of newly expanded laws in two dozen states that make it easier to prosecute people using recovered memories...
...government took two days to plan its counterattack. Early Wednesday morning, observed on television by a transfixed public, Japan's national police deployed 2,500 troops to the doors of 25 Aum Shinrikyo offices around the country. Officially they were investigating the February kidnapping of the 68-year-old manager of a notary public office suspected of having been spirited away by the cult. But the gas masks and the birds betrayed their real concerns...
Rather than wait until the State of the Union address to launch his legislative counterattack, Clinton planned a speech for this week. He did so partly because he didn't want to give the Republicans "a free ride for the next 60 days," said an Administration official. But Clinton also feared that the nation was beginning to tune him out. Last Friday, after delivering a forceful defense of free trade at the Americas Summit in Miami, Clinton met privately with 30 lawmakers from both parties. Wisconsin Republican Toby Roth, a fierce conservative, stood up and suggested the election might have...