Word: strikingly
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...unsavory as their picture-taking binge may have been, the primary legal question is whether the photographers conspicuously failed to aid "persons in danger," as required by French law. One big strike against them is that with one exception, none of them attempted to call for help, though all were equipped with cell phones. Their almost unanimous response to this charge is that they heard or assumed "someone else" had already called...
McNamara: Mr. President, we need to develop a specific strike plan. The second thing is to consider the consequences. I don't know quite what kind of world we live in after we've struck Cuba, and we've started...
...possibility of a single, one-shot-stops-all vaccine. Treatment is further complicated because the disease is a moving target. Rhinoviruses, which account for about 40% of all colds, attack mainly in the fall and spring; other cold-causing microbes, such as the respiratory syncytial viruses, tend to strike in the dead of winter...
Baseball conventional wisdom says that the Yankees-Mariners series saved the game, that it took the bad taste of a strike still bitterly remembered out of the fans' mouths. Indeed, those five gritty games rekindled the spark that greed and intransigence had almost extinguished. We revived our passion for mammoth home runs, for blown saves and tenth-inning comebacks...
...book that Hersh had spent more than four years working on, The Dark Side of Camelot (due in November from Little, Brown), as well as for a two-hour ABC documentary timed to coincide with publication. But last week Hersh and the network made an extraordinary pre-emptive strike--against themselves. In a segment of the magazine show 20/20, the network asserted that the documents are, almost certainly, fake...