Word: strikingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...effective isolation ward at the main hospital in Kikwit, where the first case had been identified. Belgium's Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) rushed in loads of gloves, gowns, masks and other essential equipment to restore hygiene to filthy clinics. But when the strike forces, aided by local medical students, fanned out through the countryside around Kikwit, trying to follow the path of the fever, it became clear that the danger was far from past...
Some economists believe budget cuts create economic distress if they go too far, too fast. Senior Clinton economic adviser Laura Tyson last week claimed that the massive budget cuts the Republicans envision might tip the economy into recession. Such statements strike some analysts as politically driven, since the Administration only two years ago pushed through a $325 billion, four-year deficit-reduction plan that it claimed would lead to lower interest rates and a healthy economy. That assertion has since proved correct...
...says a 17-year-old boy. "This is a very cruel situation." (U.S. military officials will not allow the children to be quoted by name.) When Attorney General Janet Reno announced the new Cuban policy on May 3, dozens of furious Haitian teens first tried to organize a hunger strike with the younger children, then went on a rampage, pelting soldiers with rocks and setting tents on fire. No one was seriously injured in the melee, but a handful of soldiers and children ended up with cuts and bruises...
...beliefs. Paranoid anarchists have very little, if anything, in common with mainstream Americans of a conservative stripe. Tougher law enforcement is a hallmark issue with most conservatives and Republicans, and we favor greater empowerment of federal authorities to nail these fiends before they have a chance to strike again...
...particular interest to CIA officials were his revelations about an operation called Ryan, the KGB's efforts to set up a system to determine if the Americans were drawing up plans for a surprise nuclear strike. One of Varenik's tasks was to recruit agents near NATO airfields who could report if the number of flights increased suddenly. Varenik also told the CIA about the KGB's areas of keen interest--NATO weaponry, especially aircraft, for example, and computers and data handling...