Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Michael Wheeler, professor of management at Harvard Business School, says the strike went on for so long because the teams and players are so wealthy...
...Price of Boston Celtics stock the day before the NBA strike was settled (the Celtics are the only publicly held team...
...immediate air strike isn't an option for NATO, because that would endanger the 700 monitors introduced to the region as part of the cease-fire deal brokered by Richard Holbrooke last November. But even if the monitors were withdrawn, it's not clear that the U.S. and its allies would attack: Many Western observers believe that only ground troops could keep the peace in Kosovo -- and that's a non-starter, since the Western alliance has no appetite for wading into an intractable civil war between the Serb authorities and the independence-minded Kosovar Albanians. And with no firm...
...genes that tells cells to divide (the accelerator) must get stuck in the "on" position. Another gene that tells cells to slow down (the brake) must be disabled. And the molecules that fix any mistakes in the DNA code (the repair crew) have to go on strike. In half of all colon cancers, the accelerator is a gene called ras, which makes a protein that stimulates cell growth. It was the ideal target for an anticancer drug...
Humvees. Fighter planes. Swarms of the finest fighting professionals the Marines and the Navy can muster, staging an elaborately coordinated amphibious assault with deadly precision. So which military hot spot is this -- Baghdad? Tripoli? Actually, it's San Francisco. No, this is not William Cohen's preemptive strike against a reflorescence of the Summer of Love, it's a massive war games exercise scheduled to begin March 14 in the Bay Area that will involve 6,000 troops, five ships, helicopters and F-18 bombers. The maneuvers are intended to simulate warfare in a heavily populated urban area...