Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chief Robert Rubin and Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman telephoned insurance-company CEOs at Prudential, Chubb, American International Group and CNA to urge them not to endorse the rival plan, backed by Representative Jim Cooper of Tennessee and Senator John Breaux of Louisiana. But the Administration's pre-emptive strike met with resistance. Late Friday an informal straw poll of the Roundtable's policy committee turned up broad support for Cooper-Breaux...
Boris Yeltsin's government narrowly averted the embarrassment of a newspaper strike, which would have blacked out coverage of the summit. Angered by a directive that could raise the cost of paper and printing services as much as 600%, the editors of some of Moscow's most influential publications accused the government of trying to bankrupt the media and called for a strike during summit week. Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin summoned the rebellious journalists to his new office to remind them that they had championed the very market reforms that were pushing them into the red. They relented when Chernomyrdin...
...reminiscent of the price-stable 1960s. The big reason: wage hikes, the main ingredient in most price increases, will stay low as employers continue to cut labor costs. However, Donald Ratajczak, director of economic forecasting at Georgia State University, noted growing signs of labor unrest. "The American Airlines strike may have been a watershed," he said, referring to the Thanksgiving-week walkout by flight attendants, which ended when Clinton prodded the company to seek binding arbitration. "This is the beginning of intensifying wage pressures, or at least demands for retribution in the labor markets...
Elves' Union #240 decided to strike...
...popularity is based partly on the fact that his idiosyncrasies strike a chord in his nation's gastronomic soul. Rare is the U.S. diet doctor who would recommend a white bean, duck and sausage stew, but Montignac declares that "cassoulet is the noblest of dishes." A dollop of creme fraiche in one's soup does no harm, he argues. No wonder such epicureans as fashion designer Christian Lacroix and chef Bernard Loiseau have embraced the Montignac method. "You are never hungry," says restaurateur Paul Bocuse, who has lost 40 lbs. a la Montignac...