Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Throughout his speech, Gore tried to strike a balance between lauding the Clinton administration's record while differentiating himself from his boss...
International crime will probably never attract the sort of headlines and public anxieties that were expended on the Manichaean struggle between the West and the U.S.S.R. Compared with the prospect of nuclear annihilation, hoodlums smuggling things across borders strike most people as an inevitable and tolerable fact of life. But John le Carre, the most artful chronicler of fictionalized cold war espionage (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy), takes a less sanguine view of the outlaw capitalism that only intensified after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the breakup of the old world...
...gold- and silver-fueled rise. His recollections of that time also appear in his autobiographical Roughing It. The population has dwindled from 28,000 to 800, but the town remains lively. Families can stay at one of several 19th century hotels and tour the museums commemorating Twain and the strike-it-rich era. Children will particularly enjoy going underground to visit the Chollar Mine. If you can, time your visit to coincide with the Bonanza Days Gunfighter Championships, June 18-20, or the Storey County Jumping Frog Jubilee, July...
...endorse the causes behind today's demonstrations and challenge the administration to give each group a fair and separate hearing. The issues raised here strike at the heart of the University's relationship with the world, with its employees and with its own students...
...jets strike two Iraqi missile sites; Albright warns Serbs not to attack Kosovo; Indonesia convulsed by religious riots; clashes continue between Ethiopia and Eritrea; Mexico, Canada, something or other...