Word: strikingly
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Unless or until Bob Dole gets moving, there will be only two interesting questions about Campaign '96: Can the Republicans keep control of the Congress, and will Al Gore or Jack Kemp show better in the game within the game--the race to be best positioned to strike for the top in 2000? Local factors, not presidential coattails, will largely govern the House and Senate contests, but Gore-Kemp is a national battle everyone can watch and measure...
More than 84 percent of the 1,400 registered nurses at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston voted to strike as early as Oct. 1, after more than one year of contract negotiations with the Massachusetts Nurses Association failed to reach agreement...
...strike could devastate the hospital, ranked the eighth-best in America last month by U.S. News and World Report, and hurt Partners HealthCare Systems Inc., the $1.8 billion conglomerate formed by the 1993 merger of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, another University teaching hospital...
...other hand, finds itself stuck in a cycle of turmoil. During the last few years, it has been in a struggle to overcome financial instability and labor strife. During the spring semester, undergraduates were forced to fend for themselves at mealtime when the dining service workers went on strike. Earlier in the year, Yalies were locked out of their own classrooms when teaching fellows there battled the administration. And unlike Princeton students, Harvard sophomores have never had to live in trailers. Whatever our problems as Harvard, we've never lacked teachers, food or permanent housing. These issues aside, the survey...
...right strategy can contain the damage. In this view, the fight against infectious disease is neither a leisurely war of attrition nor a desperate retreat. Instead, it looms as a protracted guerrilla conflict in which reliable intelligence and rapid reaction are the keys to survival. The enemy could strike anywhere at any time. Only when a disease outbreak has been contained can doctors allow themselves the luxury of thinking about prevention and cure...