Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speech to the American Legion on Sept. 7, Bush quoted Teddy Roosevelt on how "sentimentality" is out of place when vital national interests are at stake. He cited the 1983 invasion of Grenada and the 1986 bombing raid on Libya as models of the way the U.S. should protect itself against enemies who are doing Moscow's dirty work. At numerous rallies Bush suggested that Dukakis would be like Carter, whom he accused of having presided over "America's retreat in this hemisphere and around the world" -- an echo of the canal sellout charge...
...furor. Their novelty attracted attention and a faithful following. But Adweek magazine columnist John Carroll charged they were "overwrought" and handed them the publication's Badvertising Award. Besides, if viewers must cling to the edge of their seats awaiting the next installment, when will they find time to raid the refrigerator...
April 10--Police raid University Hall to remove the protesters. SDS members vote to strike...
...takeover artists ready to breach the clubby confines of the Tokyo stock market? In what appears to be the first direct hostile raid on a Japanese company by a foreigner, T. Boone Pickens disclosed last week, the Texas-based corporate raider has accumulated a 20% stake in Koito Manufacturing, a key supplier of car parts to Toyota...
...images of the raid--helmeted officers swinging billy clubs at students, blood spilled on the sidewalks of Harvard Yard--brought even moderate students into open conflict with the administration...