Word: salvoes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Firing the first salvo in what could become a legal battle over alleged discrimination in the Harvard police department, a former security guard has filed complaints with at least one government agency charging that his firing last year was discriminatory...
...closed ranks to oppose the deal, unless they are granted greater access to British markets. At the same time, the German parliament's Transport Committee threatened to terminate its 1955 air treaty with the U.S. if the Americans did not open more airports to German airlines. The parliamentary salvo is seen as a pre-emptive strike in support of Lufthansa German Airlines' bid for the bankrupt U.S. carrier Continental Airlines...
...dope with two babes and Hillary hustling cookies," she says contemptuously. "Well, that did it. That really did it." Like many small-town Midwesterners, Seman is so polite she seems awkward when angry. "Look how upset I am," she says, visibly quaking. Catching her breath, she fires one last salvo: "Bush had four years, and now he talks about change? Hah! Just how dumb does he think...
Whenever I meet an Asian student at Harvard, I offer the same salvo of ice-breaking questions: "Hi. What house do you live in? What's your concentration? Are you a premed...
...crackle of gunfire from the Guazapa volcano in El Salvador's heartland cut through the din of New Year's Eve revelry. But the bursts were not the usual barrage of death. Instead, rebels of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front were sending up a celebratory salvo on learning that their negotiators had at last arrived at a peace accord with the conservative government of President Alfredo Cristiani...