Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government foisted upon them -- are the ones who always suffer. At the Lawyers' Union in Baghdad's fashionable Mansour district, a white-haired attorney captures Iraqis' twin resentments in his . rage: "Did Bill Clinton have to murder Layla Attar to prove how powerful he is?" he demands. "Did that strike oust Saddam? No. So what's the point...
That mission may have been virtually impossible, judging from the outraged reaction to the unveiling last week of Bill Clinton's long-awaited timber plan. Trying to strike a balance between the needs of nature and the demands of man, the President decreed that the amount of logging on federal land would be sharply reduced and offered a $1.2 billion aid package to help timber communities diversify their economies...
...popularity at home, but the effect soon faded, and a Washington Post survey last week showed that he has the highest disapproval rating of any post-World War II President at this point in his first term. And while U.S. officials (and Clinton most emphatically) claimed that the strike crippled Saddam Hussein's intelligence capabilities, three of the missiles went astray, killing eight innocent Iraqi civilians and wounding a dozen more...
...defaming the actor. Singer contends that Connolly, in his interviewing for the Spy story, made "wild, fabricated statements about our client, trying to damage his reputation in the industry. We have reason to believe these are the same wild stories Mr. Strickland came up with." In a motion to strike the complaint, Connolly denied slandering Seagal, and Spy joined him in accusing the star of attempting prior restraint of the article...
...some of the German rightists who assault and kill Turks and other foreigners. Their depredations are "unorganized, unstructured, spontaneous acts with a political motivation," says Ernst Uhrlau, director of the Hamburg branch of an agency equivalent to the FBI. Police can never predict where or whom they will strike because, says Uhrlau, the offenders themselves "don't know in the morning what they will be doing that night...