Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...skin cancers affect the pancake-shaped cells that form the skin's upper layers. Although highly treatable, these squamous-cell carcinomas grow faster than basal-cell tumors and annually kill 2,300 Americans. Malignant melanoma, which ravages the skin's pigment-producing cells, is the most unforgiving: it will strike twice as many Americans in 1993 as in 1980. Nearly 7,000 will die this year...
Another legacy of the Reagan years was undone when the Clinton Administration decided to invite 11,400 air-traffic controllers to reapply for the jobs that Reagan had them dismissed from during their illegal 1981 strike...
...that this is a series of musical numbers with very little to tie them together. Awkward pauses between scenes, instrumental recaps of already-performed songs during set changes, and unfocussed flashes of a projected world map onto a white board (to show us where Fogg ventures next) combine to strike the word 'musical' from our minds, and insert 'musical revue' in its stead...
...Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School Philip D. Zelikow says that an air strike, followed with ground troops, is not a viable solution...
...greatest problems, professors say, is that any intervention, in the form of either a military air-strike or land warfare, will necessarily kill many people as well as have political repercussions...