Word: strike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sadly, one can see the old cycle of folly repeating itself. The Federal Reserve seems to believe that if industries start using more than 85% of their theoretical capacity, or the unemployment rate falls much below 6%, inflation will strike. Why? Pro-Fed economists monotonously intone that that is the lesson of history. But suppose the economy has changed so much-because of international competition and changes in the composition of the work force-that the old relationships no longer hold? We have insufficient data to quantify that possibility, reply the defenders of the conventional view. In other words...
...Democratic Representative Carrie Meek of Florida delivered a routine denunciation of Speaker Newt Gingrich's lucrative book deal with a Rupert Murdoch- owned publishing house. But before Meek could reach the end of her short speech, the Republican-managed House ruled her out of order and voted to strike her remarks from the record. The parliamentary scrap immediately brought a phalanx of the people's Representatives to the floor to scream at one another, with Republicans denouncing the speech for lack of decorum and Democrats blasting the g.o.p.'s "totalitarianism." Later, in a bare-knuckles address at a Republican gathering...
...working on the top-secret Tri-Service Standoff Attack Missile (dubbed Tee-Sam), which would allow the B-2 to destroy targets from 100 miles away with stiletto precision. Starting in 1996, the military declared in 1992, the B-2, armed with Tee- Sams, would be ready to strike anywhere, anytime...
Earthquakes are unpredictable. They almost invariably strike not only at times but at places nobody expects, and no one quake is exactly like any other...
...every life lost to a monster tremor in a thinly populated place--like the death toll if any (there doesn't seem to be an exact count) in New Madrid, Missouri, in 1811-12, when it was rocked by one of the most severe series of earthquakes ever to strike the U.S. The Kobe quake was only slightly bigger than the Northridge tremor but more disastrous in part because its full force appeared to hit densely populated parts of the city. The 6.7 Northridge quake slammed 80% of its kinetic energy into the sparsely populated Santa Susana mountains rather than...