Word: assailing
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What if Microsoft really is the victim of jealous competitors who've whipped the Feds into an anti-Redmond frenzy? If it's politics and not policy that prompted the Justice Department to assail Microsoft this time around, the paper trail may not become public until well into the next century. For now, though, we can look at antitrust history instead, a record dating back the for the past one hundred years that shows the execution of the Sherman Act has been highly partisan and highly protectionist. Read More in The Netly News
...Crimson quite vociferously for being part of an organization I didn't know still existed and with which I was not in any way associated. I, truth be told, haven't seen the latest issue...and I'm pretty certain that if I did, I'd want to assail the contributors myself, so I'm not too eager to do so. But what I would like is some sort of recognition that I haven't the slightest business in this whole hoop-la, maybe an apology from the Crimson and the Peninsula, and then to fade merrily back into...
Morris urged Clinton to use his Saturday radio address, which has become a kind of toughlove matinee, to come out in favor of the Wisconsin plan before Dole could assail him for opposing it--never mind that Wisconsin hadn't sent in the whole request, and no one had fully reviewed it. In the White House this kind of move has a name: "prebuttal." Because the Wisconsin plan includes substantial spending for child care, health and job training, the White House was able to claim that it is much closer to Clinton's current welfare proposals than to the Republican...
...essentially parallel to the one the West adheres to now: an ultimatum to the Serbs followed by massive air strikes if there was noncompliance. I did not even exclude Belgrade from the list of possible bombing targets. Of course, this letter was not answered; there must be thousands who assail the White House with well-meaning albeit foolish recommendations. But I cannot help thinking that had the U.S. followed such a policy a year ago, thousands of innocent lives might have been saved and the war might be over by now. WALTER GRUNWALD Denver
Conservatives assail Clinton's nominee for Surgeon General...