Word: strike
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...that's the biggest problem with RSI. Sure, we all know that physical maladies strike their victims randomly. We would hardly think to accuse cancer patients, for example, of being punished for undisclosed crimes. But as with all behavior-related preventable diseases, some unexpressed part of our psyche--and it is crucial that it remain unexpressed--feels a need to assign blame. We could always blame the University's administration (after all, this is the editorial page) for its failure to design workstations conducive to our health, but when we consider the fact that most students use their own computing...
Lerer proposed an amendment to strike the money element of the bill. Members voted down the amendment...
...Weapons Special: Our forces in the Gulf Iraq Special: Back to the Brink? Poll: Bombs Away? MONEY Daily: Would a Strike Affect the Market...
...last week, the accounts had done so much to dissolve the President's denials that the White House unrolled a new strategy. Its best hope was to make a story out of The Story, implicitly strike at the press for trafficking in confidential material while attacking Starr's prosecutors for leaking it--whether they actually had or not. Though the reports may have come from many directions, it served Clinton's purpose to focus his fire on his most powerful, least popular enemy, Ken Starr. The prosecutor's tactics have never been popular with a public increasingly sensitive to invasions...
Opposition by Russia, France, China and most of the Arab world to any military strike against Iraq may persuade President Clinton to agree to a proposed visit to Baghdad Wednesday by Secretary General Kofi Annan for a last-ditch peace bid. U.N. Security Council members meet today in search of ways to avoid a military strike. Baghdad's welcoming, yesterday, of a U.N. technical team sent to survey Iraq's eight disputed "presidential" sites may signal that Saddam Hussein is looking for a way to back down. Of course, it may be a lot easier for Saddam...