Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republicans, but by early 1995 its enthusiasm had "died down," an Administration memo says. So Clinton's team went to work. Harold Ickes, then the deputy chief of staff, and Mickey Kantor, the U.S. Trade Representative, took pains to help Teamster president Ron Carey deal with a bitter California strike, according to interviews and documents obtained by TIME. While the White House overture failed to win concessions for the Teamsters, it apparently helped the White House score points with the union. The Teamsters, its enthusiasm revived, gave him and other Democrats about $3 million in that election cycle...
...strike, at Diamond Walnut Growers in Stockton, Calif., was just such an issue. After 700 union members walked out in 1991, the firm hired replacement workers to process and package its 100,000 tons of nuts a year. The Teamsters demanded the jobs back, and the company refused, a standoff that persists today. But in 1995 the strike was seen by presidential aides as a chance, the memo said, to "rekindle" the Teamster bosses' affection for Clinton. Identifying the strike as one of Carey's "biggest problems," the memo urged Ickes to "assist in any way possible...
...interview last week, Kantor said he called the company, but out of a long-standing interest in farm workers. He said he discussed the company's views of the strike with a top official and asked "what were the prospects" of settlement, but did not offer a solution. Diamond Walnut does a third of its business overseas, a share Kantor could have helped boost as Trade Rep. Still, he says the contacts were "appropriate." A Senate committee is investigating whether he is right...
...only five years of age, the freshest team ever to make the World Series. Of course, they are also the first wild-card team ever to qualify for the Fall Classic, which makes them the pariahs of purists. And they benefited from home-plate umpire Eric Gregg's unusual strike zone in Game 5, when he gave new meaning to the baseball terms expansion and realignment. And they literally tried to buy the pennant with the $89 million owner Wayne Huizenga shelled out for free agents last winter...
...powerful pilots' unions at the big carriers to throttle back their opposition to them. American Airlines has finally ordered jets from Bombardier and Embraer, after making a deal with its 9,000 pilots on who would fly them, a contentious point in the negotiations that narrowly averted a strike by the pilots' union earlier this year. American and the pilots have agreed on the acquisition of 67 regional jets, capped at 70 seats, to be flown by American Eagle pilots, who typically earn $35,000 a year--a third of what a big-jet jockey makes. Last month United...