Word: onslaughts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outrageous was the onslaught? With a little over three minutes left in the second period, Harvard Captain Steve Armstrong launched a fly ball toward Cadet goalie Brooks Chretien. The freshman netminder backpedaled, waved off his teammates, and lifted his glove for the catch...
...traffic on the river was halted. The oil entered the Ohio River at Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle, and by week's end the scene had been replayed downriver as far as Steubenville, Ohio, where an ice jam slowed the oil's progress. Wheeling, W. Va., was bracing for the onslaught, and contamination was feared along the Ohio all the way to the Mississippi. The Pennsylvania Fish Commission reported numerous dead fish; ducks and geese, caught in the oil, had to be rescued and washed. Said Ashland Oil Chairman John Hall, who quickly declared his company would comply with federal...
Federal tax reforms, which went into effect this year and provided a disincentive for giving, spurred a prereform onslaught of donations last December, financial officials said...
Playing a pair of easy games against the Boston College and Boston University club teams tow weeks ago had failed to prepare the Crimson for the Yale-Brown-UNH onslaught...
...flabbiness of corporate America has been another major contributor to the trade deficit. Domestic manufacturers were ill-equipped to deal with the onslaught of eager foreign competitors. But now many U.S. companies have boosted their competitiveness by slimming down their costs and speeding up their reaction times. Among Detroit automakers, for instance, the "arrogance is diminishing. There is a sense of vulnerability," observes Maryann Keller, an auto-industry analyst...