Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hours after the first cruise missile attack on Iraqi air defense installations, another flight of missiles was launched to finish the job. At 8pm EDT Tuesday, three U.S. Navy ships and an attack submarine launched 17 cruise missiles at four sites the first attack failed to destroy. The second strike, said White House spokesman Mike McCurry was "necessary to ensure the safety of aircraft and crews operating in the expanded no-fly zone." U.S, British and French air forces began patrolling the expanded zone midday Wednesday Iraqi time, unfazed by Saddam Hussein's clearly stated intention to shoot them down...
...attack "an action that violates the U.N charter and international law." Only Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, the countries that benefited most from the Gulf War, appeared to give U.S. actions support. But the Saudi government would not allow U.S. planes based in the Kingdom to participate in the strikes, probably out of fear of retaliation. Many Arab countries feel that the attacks will cause needless suffering to an already impoverished Iraqi population. Others, like Toujan Faisal, a Jordanian member of parliament, view the U.S. strike in the context of President Clinton's re-election campaign. "It is a petty election...
...cannot have escaped Clinton's attention, either, that his standout successes have come when he hits singles and doubles, and that swinging for the fence makes him strike out. Far and away his biggest achievement has been slashing the deficit while spurring the economy--and realizing that they were two sides of the same coin. He had been elected partly on promises of a middle-class tax cut and a major expansion of "investments" in job training and education. Even before Inauguration, advisers gave him the bad news: the deficit was headed for $360 billion a year or more, which...
JERUSALEM: In an action reminiscent of the days of the Intifada, some two million Palestinians closed up shop Wednesday in response to Yasser Arafat's call for a general strike. Stung by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plans for new Jewish settlements on the West Bank, the demolition of a Palestinian youth center in east Jerusalem and an Israeli unwillingness to fulfill the peace agreement, Arafat called the first general strike since May 1994. Throughout Palestinian areas of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, streets emptied as schools, stores and transportation shut down. "The strike...
...former 3M office building flanked by cornfields in suburban St. Paul, separation from the 3M way of doing things represents not only a threat but also a chance to shine. In addition to slashing costs, chairman and chief executive Bill Monahan vows to create a lean, quick-strike culture that tailors its products to the needs of its customers. "Anybody and everybody will be interacting with the customer," he says. Monahan's ambitious goal is to post a total of $150 million in "economic profit"--defined as operating income after taxes and deductions for the cost of capital...