Word: strikingly
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Driving the ball past mid-field, the Elis came to face a fourth-and-13 situation on Harvard's 29-yard line. Hetherington managed to find tight end David Prybyla for a 22-yard strike over the middle, however, which led to a touchdown two plays later. And, sealed the Crimson's coffin...
This measure, which would allow a President to strike individual items from a bill rather than blocking the whole thing, was a Clinton campaign promise and a feature of the G.O.P.'s "Contract with America...
...filed in state and federal courts. A San Francisco superior court judge temporarily restricted the state from expelling an estimated 300,000 illegal immigrant children from public schools, pending a hearing. A similar order extended to public colleges and universities. Opponents are counting on the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the education restrictions. In 1982 the court invalidated a Texas law barring illegal aliens from public schools, holding that "penalizing the child is an ineffectual -- as well as unjust -- way of deterring the parent." Even the dissenting opinion acknowledged that "it would be folly -- and wrong -- to tolerate...
CRIME: Georgia approved a two-strike rule that mandates tougher penalties for violent felons. California adopted sentences of 25 years to life for three- time felons. Oregon stiffened mandatory sentences for violent crimes. Ohio eliminated the appeals-court phase in death sentences...
...warplanes today bombed a base where Serbs equipped planes with napalm bombs used last week against the Bosnians in Bihac. TheNATO raidfollowed Saturday's U.N. resolution specifically authorizing an attack on Serb-held Croatia, the airfield location. U.S., British, French and Dutch jets were deployed in the air strike -- NATO's seventh since the Bosnian war started in April 1992 -- which will put the base out of commission for just a month. Yet, it represented a dramatic departure from previous "pinprick" NATO attacks in which one or two warplanes bombed individual pieces of Serb hardware, saysTIME Brussels Bureau Chief...