Word: raiding
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...while the American wings of two of Harvard's largest departments were struggling to make new appointments in order to get back on track, the French wing of Harvard's Romance Langauges Department was suffering from a raid by a competitor on the West Coast...
When it became popular two years ago, crack, an inexpensive, smokable form of cocaine, revolutionized the drug trade. Now dealers have introduced a new marketing approach: crack pills. New York City police discovered the tablets during a raid last month. Sold with names like Press or PF (for performance) and still meant to be smoked in a pipe, the pills encourage brand loyalty and thus help pushers develop a clientele. What especially disturbs police is that anyone who comes across the aspirin-shaped pill may mistake it for a headache remedy and swallow...
FOOTNOTE: *Besides the 37 on the Stark and the 241 in Beirut, these include two airmen killed during the Libyan raid, one downed over Syria, 19 killed in hostile action in Beirut, seven in Central America, 18 during the "rescue" mission in Grenada and six by terrorist acts directed against military personnel...
...City, S. Dak. He put out leads to law officers in the area, who started watching the roads. Reported sightings were relayed to Stubbs, who used the computer system to corroborate or discount them. Within ten days, the search focused on an isolated farmhouse outside Rapid City. A dawn raid netted Snell without a shot being fired...
...port of call for NATO warships, Malta under Labor increasingly turned to the Soviet Union, North Korea and Libya for economic and military aid. So close were security ties with Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi that Maltese officials tried to warn Tripoli minutes before last year's U.S. air raid on Libya...