Word: onslaughts
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...that the conflict would spiral into a full-scale war. Sources close to Arafat say he made contingency plans to flee to Yemen or Iraq if Israel tried to retake the Gaza Strip. He knows that his 34,000 lightly armed paramilitaries can't stand up to a real onslaught from Israel, which has standing armed forces of 186,000 and some of the world's most sophisticated weaponry. The mayors of Bethlehem, Beit Jalla and Beit Sahour, three Palestinian towns south of Jerusalem, faxed Arafat's chief of National Security Forces in the West Bank, Tawfik Tirawi, begging...
...early six-touchdown deficit cemented Cornell's fate, however, as even the comeback kids from Ithaca could not pull off the impossible. Brown continued their offensive onslaught in the second half, as Webber added two more touchdown passes in the third quarter to extend the lead...
...less staid platforms. Gore chatted with Rosie and Regis; Bush sat down with Letterman; and both of them pilloried themselves on "Saturday Night Live" and at a New York City gala. But the next handful of days will be short on yuks as the ground and air onslaught intensifies and the two candidates intensify their campaigning. "I tell you this," says Democratic consultant and Gore partisan Paul Begala, assessing the impact on voters: "no one will wake up Nov. 8 and not know what they were getting...
From there, the Crimson blew the game wide open, rattling off five second-half goals. The onslaught picked apart the Davidson defense, which had survived the first half by preserving numbers in the defensive end and crowding around the ball...
...past several years, the start of the school year has begun to resemble a blockbuster movie release, with all the associated marketing tie-ins and other gimmicks. The nation's schools, caught between stagnant education spending and advertisers' growing interest in the youth market, are suffering an unprecedented onslaught of commercial overtures. From selling ad space on gym walls to allowing companies to use students for market research during class time, school administrators are scrambling to solve their financial difficulties by permitting companies to cash in on kids. Good public policy, however, suggests that schools should resist the temptation...