Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other side realizes the trend is leaning away from them," said Maddox, who called Triantafillou's proposal "a pre-emptive strike...
...leadership of the union under former president Lane Kirkland. Sweeney has for the moment pumped life into the labor movement, but it remains to be seen how to continue to do so over the long term. He's got a lot of things to deal with: the Caterpillar strike, the Boeing strike, the Detroit newspapers strike. He's really got to produce in those negotiations in order to revive the union." Moody notes that one way Sweeney has promised to shake things up is to spend up to 20 percent of the union budget on recruitment efforts. "This...
...absolutely agree with The Crimson's desire to protect free speech inside and outside both classroom and lecture hall. But this stance must be applied universally. It should be called upon only with regard to specific infractions and not as some version of a preemptive strike. In this editorial we have nothing more than politically correct indulgence...
...were helped by hundreds of proposed questions supplied by NBC staff members, reporters and legal analysts. (Members of the prosecution team declined to give any help.) The journalists were keenly aware that the interview would be placed under almost impossible scrutiny. "It was going to be really hard to strike the right balance," says Couric. "To be challenging and do follow-ups, but not be too prosecutorial." One strategic decision made early on: the interviewee would be referred to on the air as Mr. Simpson...
...take effect (the truce was held up until gas and electricity connections could be restored to the besieged capital of Sarajevo). Shortly before the scheduled start of the cease-fire, the Serbs bombarded a U.N.-declared "safe area," killing a Norwegian peacekeeper and prompting a NATO air strike against them; while the Bosnian army used the following truce delay to make several advances of its own. The Serbs also renewed their infamous "ethnic cleansing," this time forcing thousands of women and children from towns in northwestern Bosnia and taking captive thousands of men who now face an uncertain fate...