Word: salvoing
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...three moves, the most important is the one against the A.M.A. It is really an opening salvo by the FTC against no-advertising rules by lawyers, architects, veterinarians and other professionals besides doctors. The commission's argument is that these codes of ethics prevent the consumer from learning about the type and cost of available services. That in turn lessens competition and tends to fix prices illegally, the FTC contends...
...global fleet, Okean 1975 tested "command and control" communications networks employing satellites and satellite relay. Using a mixture of very high and very low frequencies and linking even submerged submarines, the Russian navy apparently achieved near-instant communications. That would be a considerable asset in Gorshkov's "first salvo" concept, in which scattered Soviet fleets are supposed to undertake simultaneous attacks within a 90-second period...
...Middies have an impressive line-up in both running and field contingents. Their balanced attack could be enough to salvo any attempts by the strong-running Penn club and Harvard's predominantly field-oriented attack...
...cars, buses and even freight trains spinning aloft, toppled massive power line towers and wiped out whole families. More than 60 twisters flickered out of the sky over an eleven-state area, claiming more than 300 lives and destroying property worth nearly $400 million. It was the most devastating salvo of tornadoes to hit the U.S. since 1925, when 689 were killed. President Nixon declared Alabama, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Georgia and Tennessee disaster areas. Vice President Ford, after viewing devastated portions of Ohio from the air, called the wasting of the landscape "unbelievable. Houses have been reduced to matchsticks...
During Sprague's opening salvo Boyle slouched in his chair in stony silence; all the bluster and bravado that characterized his nine-year reign at the U.M.W. had vanished. At 71, he is gaunt and pallid, suffering from anemia, heart disease and the effects of an attempted suicide seven months ago. He was flown in from a Missouri prison, where he is serving a three-year sentence for illegally contributing union funds to the 1968 presidential campaign...