Word: onslaughts
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...Harvard cannot rely on atmospheric conditions alone. If Harvard is to thwart the Tiger onslaught, the team will need the kind of consistently solid play that it has gotten from its defenders, midfielders and Miller in goal...
...there is considerable resistance to the TV onslaught in some big-city police departments. The Chicago police department does not allow camera crews - in squad cars, and San Diego's police have refused cooperation with most of the TV cop shows. A reporter in the patrol car is not only an inconvenience, says San Diego captain Dave Warden, but can "prevent supervisors from doing their work -- whether counseling an officer or reprimanding him." The Los Angeles police department does permit ride-alongs -- an average of 10 a week, ranging from journalists to screenwriters and community activists -- but only with reluctance...
...players said that Harvard was the source of a lot of its own problems and had trouble organizing an effective response to the Pioneer onslaught...
Jeffries' bigotry includes attacks against all who would dissent from his racist onslaught. When I interviewed him, he made racist, anti-semitic, anti-gay and bigoted statements because, as he noted later, he thought "I was representing the Black community at Harvard." It will be up to this Black community to show Jeffries they are not willing to accept his theories blindly...
...onslaught may be only a forerunner of more destructive flooding to come in Texas and other flat, low-lying sections of the country. Helter-skelter population growth along some rivers and the mushrooming of commercial construction at the edge of floodplains are putting thousands of people in disaster's path. The danger zones, some 50 miles or more wide, are so vast that newcomers are often unaware of their potential peril. Warnings to evacuate frequently go unheeded, as they did along parts of the Brazos...