Word: strikingly
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Stevens said she disagrees with the concept of substantial development, claiming that it is almost impossible, in practice, to strike a balance between hunting and conservation...
...died the year the gourmet chef was born. Metzinger was really Katherine Ann Power. Before coming to the Northwest, she had lived underground for nine years in women's communes. Before that, she was a straight-A sociology major, who had become a central figure of the Brandeis Strike Information Center, a clearinghouse for information about student strikes all over the country. Professor Richard Onorato, then dean of students, recalls that she had broken into the student-council office to steal stationery to print a political statement. "If that had been all that had happened, it would be something...
Dunlop and Nigro, who helped negotiate the Project-Labor Agreement between Harvard and local unions, explained the agreement, under which the union takes a 10 percent pay cut for renovation work and agreesnot to strike or make a time-consuming protest andmanagement agrees to use only union labor...
...Clinton was hurriedly briefed on the plan in a crowded Holiday Inn suite in East Lansing, Michigan. Ronald Pollack, the executive director of Families U.S.A., a foundation that develops programs for the elderly, told Clinton that managed care was a secret weapon he could spring on Bush. Clinton could strike a populist chord by helping business lower costs, by providing Americans with cradle-to-grave coverage and by standing up to such special interests as doctors, drug companies and insurance firms. Best of all, the plan required no new taxes. Clinton loved it. As he heard the details, he punched...
Less than a week after Nigerian strongman General Ibrahim Babangida stepped down, the country's powerful labor unions called a five-day general strike to protest the new civilian government of Ernest Shonekan, whom many see simply as Babangida's surrogate and pawn. Deepening the crisis, five of the country's 30 state governors have vowed not to recognize Shonekan...