Word: salvo
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Instead White House aides glimpsed an opportunity. Helms' blast -- the second reckless salvo from the archconservative Republican in four days -- offered Clinton a chance to point out how extremist Republicans can be. His public reaction was carefully studied: calling Helms' comments "unwise and inappropriate," the President suggested that Republicans might want to examine whether Helms was fit to serve as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "That's a decision for them to make," said Clinton...
...seen Brown on TV. Asked by the judge what he heard her say, the man blurted out: "She said he did it." (He was dismissed.) But prosecutor Marcia Clark said Brown's statements were a repercussion of the defense's own media manipulation. "Don't make the first salvo," she snapped. Fred Goldman, father of Ronald Goldman, the second victim in the double murder, told ABC's "Good Morning America" this week that "it's difficult to imagine" that anyone other than O.J. Simpson committed the crimes. Meanwhile, Judge Lance Ito, defense lawyers and prosecutors toured the jail housing...
Oliver North was set to appear in a Halloween parade with some local police in Vienna, Virginia, last week when he got word that followers of Lyndon LaRouche, dean of the American political fringe and Virginia resident, might ambush him along the way with a salvo of rotten fruit. "What do we do?" North asked an adviser, Mark Goodin. "Be sure and duck," Goodin replied...
Harvard's slight of the Foundation appears to be the latest salvo in a two-year-old cold war between top University administrators and Foundation Director S. Allen Counter. Two falls ago, in a clear blow to Counter's authority, the University appointed Epps as its "race czar." What followed was a series of behind the scenes slaps, the most notable being Counter's assistance to leaders of the Asian American Association in drafting a letter to the editors of The Crimson that attacked Epps's handling of campus race issues...
...recent salvo of editorials in The Crimson and Independent regarding Canaday have been quite amusing, but Canaday is probably here to stay. While it may be rather ironic that Harvard forced the Cambridge Fire Department to "Georgify" their station by Memorial Hall and then promptly built Canaday next door, complaining about it isn't going to anyone much good...