Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...figurine, manufactured by California-based Playmates Toys, depicts a ragged street character from Disney's hit movie Dick Tracy. But the Rev. Christopher Rose, an Episcopal priest in Hartford who works with his city's homeless, thought Steve the Tramp's grotesque villainy was a cruel attack on his unfortunate clients. Particularly incensed by the lurid resume that adorned Steve the Tramp's packaging, Rose launched a campaign to stamp out the tramp. He got his point across to Disney and Playmates, which have decided to drop the terrifying toy. But the move comes too late to recall the product...
...over it. After all, it would be advantageous for Washington to lull Saddam Hussein into a false sense of security. And what better way than to have the deputy commander of American forces in the gulf tell a group of reporters that the U.S. would not be ready to attack come Jan. 15, the deadline that the U.N. has given Iraq to pull out of Kuwait...
...Israelis appear surprisingly calm about the possibility of an Iraqi missile attack, it is largely owing to their faith in the air force, the elite military branch. Last week that trust was deeply shaken when air force Brigadier General Rami Dotan, former chief of logistics and Israel's leading expert on aircraft engines, started talking about his role in the biggest bribery scandal ever to rock the defense establishment...
...attack, in which the white woman while jogging was assaulted by a gang of black and Hispanic teenagers, roiled the city's already tense race relations. Black supporters of the youths charged that the media had hypocritically focused on this case while ignoring countless aggressions against nonwhite women. But the jurors -- four whites, four blacks, three Hispanics and one Asian -- insisted that they quickly discarded race as a factor in their 12 days of deliberations...
...been forgotten already: more and more people are recycling household waste, toting reusable shopping bags to stores and planting trees in their backyards. And after more than a decade of debate, Congress finally overhauled the Clean Air Act this fall. But these encouraging steps hardly begin to attack the most ominous threats to the environment, such as deforestation and ! global warming. For the most part, the populist fervor for preservation has not generated effective government action at a national or international level. Both the people and their leaders seem totally bewildered about how to tackle global problems. Too often they...