Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nurses at one of Harvard's major teaching hospitals voted overwhelmingly Monday night to strike if the hospital does not meet demands for greater job security and improved benefits...
...contract covering 400,000 autoworkers at the Big Three manufacturers expires this Saturday. The U.A.W. always zeroes in on one company in divide-and-conquer fashion, but in a break with four decades of tradition, the union has toned down its normally strident rhetoric and declined to set a strike deadline. Industry watchers expect the U.A.W. and Ford to coast home with a contract next week, which will set the pattern for subsequent talks at Chrysler and General Motors...
Linde's work may never help seismologists determine which type of temblor is likely to strike which region, but he still believes the research has value. There may be no better way of understanding destructive quakes, he feels, than to learn what makes them less destructive...
...time, she has given her daughter a life outside tennis. "I try to go to Broadway, some musicals," says Hingis. "I always do sports: horseback riding, soccer, basketball, swimming." She is self-possessed enough to conduct interviews in English, Czech and German, and she knows the right pose to strike, whether she's upset with a call or celebrating a victory. And there will be many victories to come. Asked if someday people might associate the name Martina with her and not just Navratilova, Hingis said, "I think everyone would like to be like her, to be famous, that...
...giving up on passing the "crown jewel of the Contract with America"--tax cuts--before Congress recesses in October. Indeed, the Congress has given up on doing much of anything before the election, except for one piece of business--the Defense of Marriage bill, a pre-emptive strike at the possibility that a Hawaiian court may recognize unions between homosexuals. It's not immediately apparent why this bill should jump the queue ahead of the potential bankruptcy of Medicare and bills to keep the government running. The Hawaiian courts will not rule until the end of the year...