Word: strike
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...today when a rocket carrying a TV satellite blew up 65 seconds after lift-off. The destroyed U.S.-made satellite, which would have provided television, telephone and digital telecommunications for Asia and parts of eastern Europe, northern Africa and Australia, was the latest -- and apparently the last -- disaster to strike the Chinese commercial space agency...
Defense Secretary William Perry and Secretary of State Warren Christopher faced down a skeptical Senate committee today with assurances that theU.S.-North Korea nuclear agreementwas a better choice than war. In fact, Perry revealed during his testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that he had considered a military strike last summer, but had ultimately rejected it as a likely prelude to all-out war in the Korean Peninsula. "That would involve the deployment of hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops, and that would involve a full-scale -- full-scale -- war," Perry said. Christopher assured the senators that the nuclear...
Imagine if the Can actually catches on (given the sorry state of pitching in the league) and gets to stick around even after the strike is settled...
...steal by Welsh international Ryan Giggs which led to the Cantona goal, an inch-perfect strike just inside the crossbar and the right goalpost...
...General Motors strike that started at an AC Delco plant in Flint, Michigan has now spread to nine more factories that produce some of the company's hottest products. The walkout has idled 30,900 workers. Plants in Pontiac, Lansing, Orion Township, Auburn Hills, and Buick City, Mich., as well as Doraville, Georgia, Janesville, Wisconsin, Ste. Therese, Quebec and Oshawa, Ontario were closed or crippled. The plants assemble cars on which GM is banking heavily, such as the Chevy Lumina and Pontiac Firebird, as well as the popular Chevy Suburban and Blazer sports utility vehicles, says TIME Detroit bureau chief...