Word: strikingly
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...Thursday column, "Single-sex Schools and the Spirit of Title IX," Talia Milgrom-Elcott discusses the legal challenge to an all-girl public school in East Harlem. Milgrom-Elcott finds it ironic that the Title IX civil rights laws can strike down conditions that favour women over...
PITTSBURGH: Unfortunately for Bill Clinton, fast track is not an issue for compromisers. It's a presidential privilege that makes trade agreements easier to negotiate and simpler to get through Congress ? who either like it or strike it, but can't make changes ? and Big Labor absolutely hates it. So when Clinton took the stage in Pittsburgh after a terse introduction by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, he started with the sugar: Campaign finance reform. Youth smoking. The 21st century (with no bridges...
...troubled from the beginning. Sixteen months after the wedding, Spencer confessed to London's Daily Mail that he had had an affair with Tatler magazine cartoonist Sally Ann Lasson in Paris, "a second one-night stand, four years after the first." The move was intended as a pre-emptive strike against plans by News of the World to tell Lasson's account of the couple's trysts. In the midst of all this, Lockwood was battling anorexia, a condition, it appears, Spencer did not always deal with sensitively. In a widely reported incident, Spencer apparently told guests at his 30th...
...STRIKE WINNERS AND LOSERS...
...believe the majority of Americans think the UPS strike settlement is a victory for the American worker and a defeat for corporate greed [BUSINESS, Sept. 1]. As a small-business owner, I can assure you the winner is not the American worker. The stockholders of UPS will make sure that the company's return on investment is not hurt and will do so by raising prices and reducing costs. The losers will be all of us, since we will pay more for the freight on practically everything we buy. The losers are also those UPS workers who will be laid...