Word: counterattacks
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...crippled the bank. Investcorp and several other defendants have filed motions to dismiss the complaint. A number of them are also plaintiffs in continuing litigation against Radwan in which they accuse him of swindling them out of several million dollars. (In fact, Radwan conceived his own lawsuit as a "counterattack.") He denies the allegations...
...Democrats won't have long to make their case. Having seen the talking-to-death that brought down Clinton's health-care reform, Gingrich adroitly withheld his plan until the last minute, then provided only a few days for Democrats to counterattack. When House Republicans wouldn't budge on their insistence that there would be just one day of hearings on the Medicare proposal, Democratic frustrations hit the boiling point. Representative Sam Gibbons of Florida, who was Ways and Means Committee chairman until last year's Republican landslide, called it "a deliberate plot to put their program over before...
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...