Word: onslaughts
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...will vault the city into history books, the onslaught also predictably wreaked havoc. In a city of mostly flat roofs not built to withstand heavy snowfall, leaks were widely reported; in Alexandria, Va., officials were searching as far away as Florida and Texas to find 30,000 tons of salt for snow removal. Near downtown Washington, trees remained strewn across intersections. The paralysis is "another example of how poorly the federal government responds in times of stress," says Paul Light, a professor of public service at New York University. (See pictures of Asia's record snowfalls...
...damaging potential of this paralysis began to be realized this week when fractious rebels from the southern Niger delta first reunited, then on Saturday ended their four-month cease-fire and promised an "all-out onslaught" on foreign oil companies in which "nothing will be spared." A second giant worry is that the political impasse will exacerbate tension between northern, mostly Muslim Nigerians - who dominate the army and government and from whose ranks Yar'Adua hails - and southern Christians, whose most senior leader is the Vice President, Goodluck Jonathan. As always, the split is the key issue in Nigerian politics...
After the flurry of points, the game took a turn for the more physical. As the Bulldogs grew frustrated with their inability to finish shots, scuffles after the whistle and an onslaught of penalties became commonplace...
...splurging on an iPod and paying for an abortion. Having an abortion is not an easy choice, whatever anti-choice proponents might say—even outside of the certainly devastating realization of the gravity of her decision, a woman going through an abortion faces relentless attack, including the onslaught of insults and eggs as she walks to the entrance of a clinic...
...Russia-Georgia conflict, the closest we'll probably get to the truth is an E.U.-led investigation that took more than a year to figure out who fired the first shot. That was Georgia, the report concluded, while also judging that Russia violated international law during the onslaught that followed. But don't expect to see any of that nuance in the films now battling it out to rewrite history. (See a brief history of World War II movies...