Word: strikingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...back home at chilly Soldiers Field, Harvard (6-10, 0-0 Ivy) could only muster a total of seven hits in a doubleheader against Rhode Island (8-12). Only because the Crimson faced a Rams pitcher that could not find the strike zone did Harvard win the first game, 6-3, but the home team's luck ran out in the nightcap as the Crimson was shut...
...occurrences must be noted. First, the most glaring result of randomization to date is that the gender balance, once the only control imposed by the University, is terribly skewed. It's rumored that the incoming residents of Pforzheimer and Eliot are 70 percent male and only 30 percent female. Strike one for randomization...
Shaken, and like most men woefully uninformed about prostate cancer, Schwarzkopf began devouring books and medical-journal articles. He overcame his squeamishness and started talking to friends and experts about this disease that seems to strike at the very core of masculinity. "For me, it was like war," he says. "First thing you do is learn about the enemy...
...Milken, whose disease was diagnosed in 1993 and who has pledged $25 million for prostate-cancer research. "Men don't like to talk about or even think about their own health," Jaroff says. "But this is one illness they had better pay attention to, because if it doesn't strike them, chances are it will strike someone they know...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Clinton Thursday issued orders to Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros to enforce the "one strike, you're out" order which would evict drug users, dealers or other violent criminals out of public housing units after one conviction. Calling the measure "hardball", Clinton said conditions in public housing were a "national disgrace." The measure has been on the federal law books since 1988, but was not enforced by most housing authorities. Now, housing authorities will be graded on their compliance with the law, low scores resulting in lowered federal aid and increased supervision. "Clinton is seizing the crime issue...