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...detective repeatedly ordered Rosa to surrender, Rosa began to strike the detective in the area of his neck and chest...
...that something's going to get resolved at the last minute. It's the nature of labor negotiations. But we then realized this was more of a situation where things were not going to shift toward a settlement but where you had to decide if you were going to strike...
Meanwhile, the players implemented a 10-day strike just before that season’s Stanley Cup playoffs—one of the first signs of Goodenow’s drastic regime change...
There's never a good moment for nuclear threats, but a Chinese general's assertion last week that his country should strike American cities with nuclear missiles if the U.S. came to the aid of Taiwan in a war with the mainland seemed particularly ill-timed. Beijing's relations with Washington have deteriorated in recent months over trade frictions, fears of a Chinese military buildup, and concerns that a bid by Chinese oil company CNOOC to buy U.S. energy firm Unocal threatens national security. So it came as a shock when People's Liberation Army (P.L.A.) Major General Zhu Chenghu...
...China and South Korea may not like North Korea's nuclear arsenal but they seem to be getting used to living with it?and prefer it to instability or war on the peninsula. Since America's military options are exceedingly limited?by the lack of any good targets to strike in North Korea, by overcommitment of U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, by Seoul's unwillingness to participate in any war?North Korea probably does not fear an attack if negotiations fail again. Neither does it likely fear major economic repercussions. Tokyo might be prepared to consider new sanctions...