Word: onslaughts
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...With the onslaught of what we like to call the tsunami season, there are things that are going to happen, but I think that overall the students have been much more pleased this semester,” Doyle said...
...score tied at two, both teams appeared about even. The Huskies then did their best to dispel that idea. Harvard looked completely out of sorts as the puck never seemed to leave its zone. Northeastern moved the puck brilliantly as the Crimson defense reeled. Somehow, Kuusisto survived the onslaught for several minutes...
...Mart was not amused by Hood's report, but Conaway showed some bravado in the face of the onslaught: he refused to interrupt his vacation to respond to Hood's salvo. Said K Mart spokeswoman Lori McTavish: "We're confident we have enough resources and enough lines of credit to get through. We're implementing a major change in the company's operations and culture." Other analysts were surprised only by the reaction to Hood's report, which recommended that investors sell the stock. They did, driving it to a 30-year low of $3.89 before it recovered. "This report...
Even as medical workers picking through carnage Thursday came under fire from two surviving holdouts, prominent humanitarian organizations raised concerns over the confrontation in which 400 or more Taliban prisoners held at the Qalai Janghi fortress near Mazar-i-Sharif were killed in a three-day onslaught of Northern Alliance artillery and machinegun fire and U.S. air strikes. United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson on Thursday added her voice to calls by Amnesty International for an urgent international inquiry into the bloodbath, while the International Committee of the Red Cross questioned whether the rules of war had been properly...
AFGHANISTAN Rush to Create Post-Taliban Government Opposition groups, diplomats and aid agencies scrambled to fill the political vacuum left in Kabul and other key Afghan cities abandoned by Taliban fighters under the twin onslaught of U.S. bombing and Northern Alliance advances. But there were ominous signs that warlords were reclaiming their traditional fiefdoms, threatening the country with fragmentation. Air strikes against al-Qaeda targets continued past the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan as Taliban leaders remained defiant, and U.S. ground troops clashed for the first time with Taliban soldiers in the south. As British forces secured...