Word: tidal
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Bush originally conceived the summit during the 1988 presidential campaign as a forum for reading the riot act to Latin leaders about their failure to curb the tidal wave of cocaine that continues to flood the U.S. But that was before Colombia embarked on its brave and costly offensive against the narcotraficantes and the U.S. launched its military strike against Panamanian strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega, stoking long-standing regional resentments of gringo imperialist intervention...
...gangs sport arsenals that a small army might envy, that militantly progun position has put the National Rifle Association at odds with the majority of Americans. To its opponents, the N.R.A. is the Darth Vader of special-interest groups, a force of 2.8 million members who can launch a tidal wave of constituent letters toward any legislator who ventures a word in support of gun control. Speaking before Congress last year, James Brady, the former White House press secretary who was wounded during John Hinckley's 1981 shooting of Ronald Reagan, called the N.R.A. an "evil empire" that tries...