At the same time, the Palestinians issued a caustic attack on the Clinton administration's "mistakes and failures" in earlier talks.

His caustic attack set off a rising chorus of boos and hisses that peaked with several of them shouting at him to resign.

In an caustic attack, he released a barrage of statistics to show how the city would be hurt by the state proposal.

Some of the messages on Usenet involve caustic personal attacks - or equally vitriolic defenses against those attacks.

The advertisements never surfaced, Mr. Forbes's aides said, because they feared that the spots would backfire like his caustic attacks on Bob Dole in 1996.

That would have puzzled Harold Ickes, who reserved his most caustic attacks on 1930's press bias for partisan columnists.

The most heartening accomplishment, one said, may well have been an agreement to tone down the caustic attacks each side has lobbed during the last month of bargaining.

The group is known for its caustic attacks on people it opposes and former members.

It was a caustic attack on the seceders.

He tied it to a caustic attack on Gingrich-style Republicans - he called them "trickle-down terrorists" - that contrasted with the more conciliatory approach taken by the White House.