Word: strikingly
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...bipartisan orgy of the balanced budget. "New programs for kids are a great way to unite the party," says a White House aide; even House minority leader Richard Gephardt, who denounced the balanced budget, is helping plan the kiddie offensive. Most important, Clinton's advisers think children's issues strike a special chord with Americans. "The fastest growing segment of the electorate is the one concerned about protecting children and helping parents be good parents," says Clinton pollster Mark Penn...
DEAR DR. RELATIONS: I read that the UPS workers now on strike are getting $55 a week from a Teamsters strike fund. That doesn't seem like much, does...
...this case, as in so many others, the lesson seems to be that them that has, gets. When the Players Association struck Major League Baseball in 1994, veteran players received $10,000 a month from the association's strike fund, which had been fattened with the proceeds from endorsement deals. But not all fat cats think ahead. The National Football League Players Association went into its 1987 strike with no funds whatsoever, and players were soon crossing picket lines...
...increasingly interconnected world, it's tempting to interpret even nontax news stories according to their impact on your own life. How about the UPS strike? Yes, of course, a responsible citizen is concerned with analyzing the role played by part-time jobs in the American economy, but perhaps not as concerned as he is with whether or not those two polo shirts from the catalog company--one in puce, one in taupe--will arrive in time for the most important weekend of the summer...
...actually found the crash of a Federal Express plane at Newark International Airport not long ago a more persistent personal concern than the UPS strike. I tried to respond to the news on a high level--to express gratitude that nobody was seriously injured, to listen thoughtfully to interviews about whether the incident has anything to teach us about improving runway safety--but I couldn't help wondering whether that plane was carrying an important FedEx package for me. Who from? How am I supposed to know...