Word: volley
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kennedy fired off volley after volley of statistics, pointing out that 140 million bikes already sit in garages across the nation, that every year a car produces its own weight in pollutants, that traffic problems cost the country more than $41 million annually and that 25 to 40 percent of the Japanese employed population bike to work...
...tragic exchange was one of the first engagements of the ground war, an opening volley in the 36-hour battle of Khafji. It also represents this war's first documented case of U.S. casualties from "friendly fire" -- a combat euphemism for troops' getting shot, shelled or bombed by their own side...
Dusk was settling over the seaside South Island village of Aramoana (pop. 52) last week when a volley of shots ruptured the evening calm. Almost simultaneously, an orange glow lit the darkening sky as fire licked at the house of Garry Holden, 38, a naturopath who lived with his two daughters at the far end of the village. Many of the locals interrupted their dinners to investigate...
Head capped the win by heading a rebound volley off the Crimson cross-bar, just two minutes after Harvard freshman Joe Bradley knotted the match, 2-2, with an unassisted tally...
...battle. Early in the race, former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein tarred her Republican opponent, Senator Pete Wilson, as a captive of the S&L industry. Wilson responded in kind, accusing Feinstein and her wealthy husband of profiteering from his part ownership of an Oregon S&L. When neither volley had much impact, the recriminations subsided. Feinstein and Wilson are essentially centrists, though they disagree on a state referendum that would limit the number of terms legislators could serve (he's pro, she's anti). Feinstein supports a sweeping environmental ballot initiative, while Wilson opposes...