Word: counterattacking
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...Druze fighters. The battleship hurled eleven of the big shells in its first engagement and 40 rounds from 5-in. guns in a second attack. The salvos were another reminder to Syria and its allies in Lebanon that any challenge to U.S. forces will be swiftly met with a counterattack...
Much of their gains have come at the expense of traditional department stores. Now those merchants are mounting a counterattack. After seeing their customer base eroded mostly by discount stores in the 1960s and then by specialty shops in the 1970s, they are reworking merchandising strategies. Many are shedding stodgy departments, strengthening customer service and sharpening price competition. A few are using more aggressive tactics. As a result, disputes between off-price and full-service retailers are increasingly winding up in lawsuits...
...however, Dave Munson equalized on another counterattack. From that point on the pace was furious but both teams produced nil when time...
...With the help of Western governments-led by the U.S., which threatened to withdraw its 25% share of UNESCO's budget-the 1981 conferees succeeded in getting the U.N. agency to defer major antipress proposals. Diplomats predicted that the second Talloires session would reinforce the journalists' counterattack: it drew 83 participants, vs. 63 in 1981, and included news organizations from the U.S., most of Western Europe, Japan and countries as diverse as Finland, India and Peru. Said Jean Gerard, U.S. Ambassador to the agency: "This makes UNESCO a little less anxious to take a confrontational tone." Still, Gerard...
...residents of Tenancingo and 20 government troops had been killed. The guerrillas escaped with at least 20 casualties. Salvadoran military officials claimed that government pilots had not intended to strike the town center and had been misdirected by insurgents using captured radios. The commander who led the counterattack apologized to the people of Tenancingo, explaining that the brutal bombing raid had been an "exception." Nevertheless, the incident was bound to set back government efforts to pacify and repopulate wartorn areas of the country. It was also sure to draw the wrath of U.S. congressional critics...