Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...media was unable to ignore Ms. Harbury's hunger strike outside the White House for information about her missing husband. As information began to surface, Congressman Robert G. Torricelli (D-N.J.), helped break the story about the C.I.A.'s relationship to the colonel. President Clinton then authorized a full investigation...
...Ready! Strike...
Eventually, the replacement players will be forgotten. They should be remembered, though, and maybe even thanked. They helped keep spring-training cities on life support, they made the major leaguers think twice about continuing their strike, and, most important, they turned back the clock to a time when the players ran everything out and signed everything put in front of them. Before the last spring-training game in Vero Beach, Florida, the mock Los Angeles Dodgers came out on the field and applauded the fans for their support. That's something you don't see every day--hell...
Crossing a picket line can indeed be morally repugnant. But this baseball strike wasn't exactly Matewan, not when the players, who average more than $1 million a year, weren't even willing to man their own picket lines. Ostensibly, the players were worried about security, but more probably, they were worried about having to sign a lot of autographs. Disdain for the public is one thing the owners and players have in common...
...were to become law. So far, he said, he is inclined to support only the line-item veto and a $16 billion spending cuts package that the Senate passed Thursday night. Senate Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, chosen to respond to Gingrich's speech Friday, added his own pre-emptive strike: "The Republicans will try to impress us with the sheer volume of legislation they've passed, largely in one house of Congress -- as if it's the quantity, not the quality, of legislation that matters," Gephardt said...