Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...noted, and there was not enough academic substance to justify adding that one. Within days, however, 300 students -- equivalent to a tenth of the school's Chicanos and about 1% of total enrollment -- staged a protest that escalated into a window- breaking skirmish with police. Next came a hunger strike by five students and one faculty member. In June UCLA backed down, creating the Cesar Chavez Center for Interdisciplinary Instruction in Chicana (in deference to women) and Chicano Studies...
...strike at American foreshadows industry-wide union turmoil...
Call it a nexus, a linking of best-seller components: war, romance, treachery and the sort of cross-cultural trim that has Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, mastermind of the Pearl Harbor strike, spouting about American baseball. He hates the Yankees for their brute power and likes the adroit Cardinals because "they play the game more like we do." This used to be called sneaky, though Deford, a veteran sportswriter, scores one for international correctness when Yamamoto notes that Westerners use the term "element of surprise" when referring to their own wily tactics...
...whether his economic reforms will remain in place or be overturned by elderly hard-liners who survive him. Can the Communist Party, with waning legitimacy and faith, provide the stability to keep the vast country on track and under control? Can China, like neighboring Singapore or South Korea, strike a lasting balance between authoritarian politics and free-for-all capitalism...
Unbeloved American Airlines head shocked at success of strike...