Word: onslaughts
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...Clinton's purpose, since it would mean the end of all inspections, no matter how imperfect. Washington would have to assume that Pyongyang was reprocessing the plutonium to build bombs. Pressure would increase to pile on the sanctions and begin reinforcing South Korea to defend against a possible retaliatory onslaught from the North. A cycle of response and reprisal could spiral out of control...
Fans might sneer at that. Oh, they enjoy the onslaught -- catching those souvenir gopher balls, urging the home team on to a nine-run rally in the last at-bat. Yet they suspect that the quality of baseball is declining and that players make too much money at a kid's game...
...opening barrage of Pyongyang's attack would be one of the largest in modern history. The North will not lack manpower to wage the initial onslaught. More than two-thirds of the 1.2 million-strong army are deployed within 60 miles of the DMZ, amply equipped with tanks, self-propelled artillery and armored personnel carriers to enhance their mobility. "Their heavy firepower, forward deployment and high state of combat readiness constitute a cocked gun pointed at South Korea," says Walter Slocombe, a top Pentagon official...
...that we got that out of the way, I can tell you what the deal with the Seattle-Baltimore game is. Seems that the O's were up 6-1 yesterday, but were victims of a Mariner onslaught that was capped by Ken Griffey Jr. Homer off of Brad Pennington that traveled over 400 feet...
Until now, medicine has tried to overwhelm the cancer cell with brute force, slicing it out with surgery, zapping it with radiation or poisoning it with chemotherapy. All too often, however, a few cells manage to survive the onslaught and germinate, sometimes years later, into tumors that are impervious to treatment. The ability of the cancer cell to outmaneuver its attackers has long been reflected in mortality statistics. Despite gains made against cancers such as childhood leukemia and Hodgkin's lymphoma, the overall death rate remains dismally high. This year more than half a million Americans will succumb to cancer...