Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deal is probably as good as Icahn can get, given TWA's bumpy flight path since he came aboard. Less than three months after he officially gained control, the airline's 6,000 flight attendants walked off the job for 10 weeks. In April 1986, a month after the strike began, a terrorist bomb exploded in mid-air on a flight bound for Athens, killing four passengers and wounding nine others. TWA's overseas business never recovered. Neither did its relationship with labor. Icahn's zeal to cut costs has also led to confrontations with TWA's mechanics and pilots...
After a two-day general strike by millions of black workers last week, the A.N.C. and its allies in the trade unions and the Communist Party turned up the heat with marches in several cities. Most dramatic was the peaceful turnout in Pretoria, the heart of Afrikanerdom and the administrative capital of the country, where 70,000 marchers drew up in the park below President F.W. de Klerk's office and chanted, "De Klerk must go!" Said A.N.C. secretary- general Cyril Ramaphosa: "Next time, Mr. De Klerk, we are going to be inside...
...about the national average) of the Pittsburgh work force is unionized, the company's use of fill-ins -- as well as an outside security force dressed in military-style uniforms and combat boots -- struck the wrong chord in a city that's marking the centennial of the 1892 Homestead Strike, in which 10 steelworkers were shot by Pinkerton security guards at Andrew Carnegie's factory just outside town. Readers burned papers, and advertisers displayed signs proclaiming that they were not doing business with the newspaper company. Even Mayor Sophie Masloff canceled her subscriptions. After two days of fighting...
...would prefer to use unmanned Tomahawk cruise missiles. But he would probably have to send in aircraft as well, and U.S. pilots could be killed or taken prisoner. Saddam could retaliate with the several hundred Scuds he is believed to possess, attacking Israel in the hope that it would strike back and thus strain Washington's ties to Arab allies like Egypt and Saudi Arabia...
...convention only two weeks away, the Republican incumbents are acting like amateurs and the Democrats are performing almost flawlessly. "We've finally met our match," says a senior Bush aide. "Clinton punches and counterpunches like a Republican -- and worst of all, he obviously understands how important it is to strike back in the same news cycle. So far, nothing we've thrown at him has gone unanswered by the evening news broadcasts...