Word: onslaughts
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...first a Speaker and then his majority whip, the fall of others had lifted Gephardt closer to the top of an institution that he had once seen only as a springboard to the White House. With Foley's demise, Gephardt became the highest-ranking Democrat to survive the G.O.P. onslaught. Now he had far more than his own image to retool. "This was destined to happen," Gephardt told his distraught staff the next morning. "We just have to get to work...
...distilled the essence of competing in a high-tech world down to a single sentence: "Only the paranoid survive." He's right. Uncertainty is the watchword of the new digital age. That's why Microsoft is throwing everything it's got at Netscape. And that's why, despite that onslaught, Netscape still has a chance...
...Christopher Reeve's mom, I congratulate you on your excellent profile of him. Although I knew that this cover story was coming, I confess I was unprepared for the onslaught of tears that overcame me when I read it. Your report brought back a lot of memories and painted a very vivid picture of Chris' life today. As a journalist, I admired the scope and detail of the piece and the skillful way Chris' accident, therapy and campaign for spinal-cord research were interwoven with the personal aspects of his life and thoughts. You captured the paradox in his driving...
...this onslaught is causing them any tremors, employers are not letting on. Jeffrey McGuiness, president of the Labor Policy Association, a corporate lobby group in Washington, says, "College students breezing in and telling people they are better off joining a union--and then breezing back to school again--that's not likely to be very effective." The handpicked Union Summer activists, however, are far from ivory-tower stereotypes. Among the 30 Los Angeles recruits, for instance, only one is an Ivy Leaguer: Brown University's Marisela Ramos, the brainy daughter of an illiterate East Los Angeles seamstress. Three...
...couple of people go in ahead of me and look at what the challenges were going to be." Indeed, she encountered a deeply troubled organization--far more troubled, according to a source close to Mrs. Dole, than she appreciated. Since the mid 1980s, in response to the onslaught of AIDS, the FDA had begun to toughen its inspection of blood banks. In the process, its field inspectors found widespread and potentially dangerous problems with the way the Red Cross tracked blood donors and tested blood for infectious agents. In 1988, under FDA pressure, the Red Cross agreed to assert tighter...