The nation's Republican governors contended today that the Gore campaign was "brutally abusing" the good name of Florida's top election official and seriously threatening the foundations of American democracy by continuing to challenge the results of the state's presidential balloting.

"They have been brutally abusing her," Mr. Schafer went on.

He brutally abused the hapless engineers as they struggled to keep up the rate of firing he demanded, calling down the gods' curses on the steadfast Persians in their hellhole of a stronghold, refusing the entreaties of his advisers to drink water or to rest.

Rendell brutally abused Morris' children, once beating Annie so brutally that she could not walk.

A15 The nation's Republican governors asserted that the Gore campaign was "brutally abusing" Florida's secretary of state and threatening the foundations of American democracy in its election challenge.

She was the adoptive mother of six children in the 1960s and 1970s, and brutally abused them all, killing one of them, three-year-old Dennis Jurgens, in 1965.

She entered a mental home to escape from her third husband, who brutally abused her during the four days they lived together; the marriage lasted only thirteen weeks.

A Queens couple were charged yesterday with brutally abusing their infant son, beating and burning him, and tying his hands so he could not remove his pacifier.

Vulnerable to the expectations of an alien land, Ms. Hayslip was married again, to a man who brutally abused her.

Into her domain walks David Lawrence (Marcus Giamatti), an arrogant Dodgers pitcher who faces charges that he brutally abused a young woman with whom he was having a fling.