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The WP lead says that Gates was "assailed" at the hearings, for suppressing competition, by some of the business rivals he appeared with, as well as by some senators.
'' On Fox News Sunday , Clinton budget chief Jack Lew assailed the GOP's "cynical charade."
The answer was that the reporters who assailed Reagan's howlers were empiricists, but Reagan himself was not.
The NRA assailed the ban, and promised to seek relief in Congress and the courts.
Johnson and I walked arm-in-arm up the High Street to my house in James's Court; it was a dusky night; I could not prevent his being assailed by the evening effluvia of Edinburgh.