Word: strikingly
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Crandall said the strike is costing the companyover $10 million...
Moreover, according to the confidential report, D'Arco stated that whenever he initiated illegal pickets or strikes, he would call Carey to advise him, and that "Carey would honor the strike without even investigating the nature, purpose or legitimacy of the strike." According to investigators, this suggests that Carey's own Teamster Local 804, which he still controls, and which represents United Parcel Service workers in the New York City area, declined to deliver packages to employers who were under attack by the Lucchese family -- presumably for failing to make payoffs...
...aging population, Kohl sought to finance long-term nursing care by dropping up to six days of the sick pay workers get. The idea provoked a minicrisis in his coalition, forcing him to back off; an alternate plan to slash holiday pay 20% was passed by the Bundestag over strike threats...
Last week on Meet the Press, President Clinton pointedly declined to rule out any "specific options" on how he might militarily deal with North Korea's advancing nuclear-weapons program. But Time has learned that Clinton Administration officials have studied -- and dismissed -- the possibility of launching an air strike to wipe out the communist regime's nuclear program. The locations of North Korea's nuclear reactors are known, but analysis has shown they could not be destroyed without releasing unacceptable levels of radioactivity that could spread through East Asia. With the surgical-air- strike option now off the table, diplomatic...
...idea that thinning ozone will let more solar ultraviolet radiation strike the earth (leading to increased skin cancers and cataracts as well as weakened immune systems) has been so far a mostly theoretical danger. Four years of careful measurements, however, now show a direct relationship between ozone loss and ultraviolet leakage...