Word: strikingly
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Strife erupts inside the governing coalition amid the specter of a national 24-hour strike...
DETERRENCE PROGRAMS AND THREE-strike laws, which put a criminal away for life, are not mutually exclusive crime-reduction concepts ((Law Enforcement, Nov. 14)). Many people can avoid a life of crime if they are given more positive outlets for their energies -- thus the true benefit of "prevention programs." But we must also accept the harsh reality that many criminals are so hardcore that no amount of positive effort will reform them. These repeat, violent offenders must be locked away forever; there is no other way to stop them. Yes, jailing them costs money, but freeing them could cost...
...Helms had told a Raleigh newspaper that the President "better have a bodyguard" if he ever visited his state. "I'm ready to go to North Carolina right now," an angry Clinton informed White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, who brought him the news last Tuesday. The deep strike in enemy territory was quickly dismissed as impulsive. "We can't just react every time Jesse Helms decides to push his crazy buttons," said a senior official...
...Webster, with a certain knife which he then and there in his right hand had and held, him the said George Parkman in and upon the left side of the breast of him the said George Parkman then and there feloniously, will-fully and of his malice aforethought, did strike, cut, stab and thrust, giving to the said George Parkman then and there with the aforesaid knife in and upon the left side of the breast of his the said George Parkman one mortal wound of the length of one inch and the depth of three inches of which said...
...think it's hard in an ecumenical church to strike a balance between accommodating everyone's beliefs and still having a theology-based doctrine," she says. "[Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Minister to the Memorial Church Rev. Peter J.J. Gomes does that very well...