Word: onslaught
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...expired. In exchange, he offered to pay back 1%?or $1 million to $5 million?on every note cashed in. "It is the scam du jour," says U.S. Secret Service agent David Popp, a former White House bodyguard now stationed in Manila to protect U.S. monetary instruments against an onslaught of hustles, swindles and fakes that have sprung up in the Philippines...
Singer's deft diagnosis came courtesy of a medical newsletter, one of a burgeoning arsenal published for consumers. The nation's top 10 consumer health newsletters reach more than 4.4 million subscribers, many of them older, educated women hungry for reliable, understandable sources that sort through the daily onslaught of unevaluated health information. Singer buys Cornell University's Women's Health Advisor, as well as Nutrition Action Healthletter from the Center for Science in the Public Interest and Johns Hopkins Medical Letter, Health After 50. "At my age, your body has all kinds of surprise quirks," explains Singer...
...France has for most of this century had a love-hate relationship with U.S. popular culture. The government has, for example, fought hard to maintain trade protections on French cinema in the face of the Hollywood onslaught. To watch Levis-clad French college kids in sidewalk cafés discussing the trial of Puffy Combs or the Cruise-Kidman divorce makes it plain that this such protections are a doomed holding action. But cuisine - cuisine is different. Ask any French man or woman for their views on U.S. cuisine, and nine times out of ten you'll be told, "They...
Dartmouth blueliner Trevor Byrne gave a hint of the impending onslaught when he hit a ringing slapshot off the left post barely 30 seconds into the game. But Dartmouth would only need another minute to get on the board...
Fresh from winter break, I was actually ready for the onslaught. I was prepared for a siege, ready to lay waste to the mountains of unknown material threatening to undo me. My keep was filled with an abundance of preserves, primarily Christmas cookies from mom, and my will to defend the coveted GPA could be no higher. I was primed for battle...