Word: strikingly
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That may be true, but the primary beneficiaries of 211 will be securities lawyers like himself. They have made millions filing so-called class action "strike" suits against firms in such volatile industries as high technology. The suits usually allege that a company "knew or should have known" that "adverse" developments would send its stock plummeting without warning. "Fundamentally, Proposition 211 is a Trojan horse for strike suits," charges Hill. Another chairman and CEO, Larry Ellison of Redwood Shores-based Oracle, brands the proposition "legal terrorism...
...have to admit that it did not strike me as that big a deal at first. As I was sitting in the Kirkland House Dining Hall, one of the heads of Room 13, a campus peer counseling service, approached me to complain about a column in Fifteen Minutes titled "Prank Files." She explained that the author of this column, William L. Kirtley '97, had prank-called Room 13, telling the counselor there that he was depressed over Harvard's fall to number three in the U.S. News and World Report rankings...
According to Zaitchik, after Amnesty wrote letters on behalf of Turkish prisoners who were on a hunger strike last summer, the Turkish government compromised and ended the strike...
...rules that skeptics contend he has not yet stated. In chapter 22, in a passage that stands with the Book of Job as Scripture's most wrenching enigma, he demands that Abraham sacrifice his favorite son and long-awaited heir, relenting only as the knife is poised to strike...
...seeking "an opportunity for folks to see across church and racial lines through discussing these basic stories." Chizuk Amuno's Rabbi Richard Camras concurs. "Everybody sees [the stories] as sacred," he says; their power derives in part from their subject matter, the "jealousy, sibling rivalry, wanting to strike out at your neighbor, the things we face every...