Word: strikingly
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When the story of the decline of Washington is written, historians may decide that its beleaguered citizens finally snapped on the day the city decided to seek out and fine homeowners who failed to rake leaves from the public space in front of their houses. The unraked-leaves strike force emerged this month after a winter of discontent, when the city with one of the nation's highest tax rates ran out of money and stopped providing some basic services. The streets are almost never clean (grit and cigarette butts blow up from littered gutters on K Street), only...
...North and South Korea, the U.S. and China) to draft a peace treaty replacing the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War. Whether or not such a conference ever begins, the mere proposal serves a number of purposes. It allays the perpetual South Korean fear that the U.S. will strike a deal with Pyongyang behind its back. Simultaneously it warns the North that it cannot scare Washington into such a deal by sending troops on forays into the Demilitarized Zone...
Dartmouth's .250 overall winning percentage may not be enough to strike fear in the hearts of opposing players, and the shower of runs Penn scored--26 in two games--on Dartmouth's hapless pitching staff doesn't make them seem like title contenders...
...hugging first and second and two outs. Brush worked a quick 0-2 count before throwing a 55 footer that ended up at the screen behind the plate, pushing the runners to second and third. Fortunately for the Crimson, mighty DeRosa watched a curveball nip the outside corner for strike three...
...tech I.P.O. Granted, companies like Yahoo and Excite, which use typed-in key words to guide users through the Web's sprawl, perform an important editorial service. But with minuscule profits and an uncertain future, market valuations hovering at 300 times revenue (for Lycos, which went public last week) strike some analysts as decidedly "optimistic." That's not slowing down the train, though. Yahoo, which had a million-dollar profit last year, is due to go public this month. Valuation: possibly half a billion...