Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lott said Serbian forces appear to be withdrawing under threat of a NATO strike and asked why, in "what appears will be three weeks before an election, we are going to go in and bomb some artillery tubes inside Kosovo...
...world of sports, baseball and basketball have switched places in the public's consciousness. The former is once again the exciting national obsession while the latter has become the sport of disgruntled, greedy players on strike...
There was a strike in 1994 and many of the owners worried that the fans would not come back and that businesses would shy away from the grand old game. All of a sudden the hitter's Renaissance was born...
...fashion to turn each new star into a savior? I suspect this has something to do with the frenzy of millennial predictions, spawned by the strike, of the death of baseball. None of these predictions have come true, of course, but nevertheless the attitude lingers that baseball is in deep trouble and needs the Herculean feats of McGwires and Ripkens to keep from teetering into oblivion. This is a myth. Suggesting that baseball needs saviors is to suggest it is in a worse state than it actually is, and only further perpetuates the myth...
Baseball can always use home run kings, great teams and great moments. But what it really needs is something more complex than a record-smashing hitter or inspirational underdog. The sport--or rather, the media that reports on it--needs to get over the strike, quit appointing saviors where none are needed and realize that the game ultimately will survive on its own merits, as it always...