Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They have no right to strike," Joseph Crugnale, one of Steve's owners, said Wednesday. "It's a ridiculous situation," he added...
...Netscape gets its chance to strike back today, but beware: If their third-quarter earnings are anything less than the 12 cents a share analysts are expecting, their stock could actually sink - trust-busting in Washington notwithstanding. Also reporting today are Philip Morris, Pepsi, Exxon, Amoco and Goodyear. If all post good profits as expected, Wall Street may sing again...
Sweeping pronouncements like that will strike many scientists who study the brain as puzzling, if not downright ludicrous. Neurobiologists, in particular, will find much to quibble with in How the Mind Works--which is not surprising, since Pinker comes at the subject from an entirely different perspective. The son of a traveling salesman, Pinker grew up in Montreal and attended McGill University, where he became fascinated with the psychology of perception and cognition. He received a Ph.D. from Harvard, then moved a few blocks down Massachusetts Avenue to M.I.T., linguist Chomsky's home base. Chomsky's seminal theory--that humans...
...professor of literature at Princeton and the co-author of Arthur Ashe's Days of Grace, secured the cooperation of Rachel Robinson, Jackie's widow, who gave him full access to her private papers and the archives of the Jackie Robinson Foundation. The result of Rampersad's research may strike some readers as unduly dry and academic. The prose sometimes seems stiff: "He thought of himself and his future in terms of moral and social obligations rather than privilege and entitlement." Missing here is the fiery Robinson old-time fans remember not just running the bases but also thundering around...
...often lured away and could not join other kids in punting footballs or sledding on icy streets. Instead, he was "on a picket line. I'd be standing by the fire barrel with my dad. He'd explain to me why we were there--that people were on strike for better wages, better lives. That's my heritage...