Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...phone problems are not the first to strike police department communications. Last December, the department lost one of its radio channels, forcing the escort service, parking office and security office to use the same channel...
...Another strike against Tribe is that he isn't very well connected to Clinton...
...GOLD RUSH IS ON. BUT INSTEAD OF GOING WEST, prospectors hoping to strike pay dirt are heading to the Far East. With an economy expanding 12% a year and an untapped market of 1 billion consumers, China once again is becoming a dream destination for companies from a host of Western countries, including the U.S., Germany, France and Sweden. After being repelled by an unfavorable business climate in the wake of the Tiananmen crackdown, U.S. firms are now among the most enthusiastic newcomers to Chinese shores. Last Tuesday AT&T signed a tentative agreement with China's State Planning Commission...
...Trade Center is not a surprising target. In the early 1970s CIA agents compiled a list of potentially vulnerable sites that they believed might make high-value terrorist strike points. Near the top of that list, former deputy CIA director Bobby Inman told TIME, was the World Trade Center. "When the people responsible for anticipating terrorist attacks began to run scenarios on this kind of thing, this was one of the places." Why? "Because of the number of victims who would be involved," said Inman. The information raises questions about what kind of extra precaution the Port Authority might have...
...Amazon rubber tappers and champion of rain-forest preservation was killed in 1988. Little was done to protect him from hostile ranchers bent on stripping the forests. When his assassins, Darci Alves Pereira and his father % Darly Alves da Silva, were convicted two years later, it was an unprecedented strike for justice that triggered a steady decline in local violence...