Word: salvoes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambridge Democratic Committee fired a salvo against long-term incumbency last night, and Sondra Scheir's 20-year stranglehold on a member's seat on the Cambridge Election Commission appeared to come...
...MEMBERS OF HONG KONG'S LEGISlative Council sat in silence, Governor Christopher Patten unleashed a sharp-tongued salvo against Beijing last week -- a measure of his frustration with the intransigent mainland government. Declaring that Britain and China had only "weeks rather than months" to map out something resembling a democratic future for the colony, Patten threatened to push ahead unilaterally with political reform, specifically his effort to broaden, however modestly, Hong Kong's electoral base, a program that has drawn Beijing's unrelenting ire. In urging the legislators to fight for reform, Patten asked, "If we are not prepared...
...spite of the arsenal which Brock has stockpiled, there is no single piece of ammunition sufficient to land a mortal blow. The Real Anita Hill is, however, a salvo in an ongoing cultural war. It lends a new aspect to the case, compelling the reader to take another look at the proceedings which, almost two years ago, rent American society along class, racial and gender lines...
...totes a sawed-off, 20-gauge, pump-action shotgun he bought for $20 last January from a 16-year-old friend. "The grip was broken, so I got a good price," the 17-year-old says proudly. He doesn't shoot birds anymore, but he fires an occasional salvo into the night sky around Omaha. "Sometimes I just feel like busting it, you know. I just want to pull the trigger...
...dozens of young people who helped write the declaration passionately defend its contents. "We see this as an opening salvo," says Jonathan Karl, 25, a writer and editor at Freedom House, a human-rights group. "We want to put people on notice that we have a direction, and we want these to be the central topics of discussion and action by our generation." Bill Strauss, 46, co-author of the book 13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail? and one of the few participants in the group over 40, compares the declaration with the anti- Establishment Port Huron Statement issued...