Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boston Red Sox came within one strike of winning the World Series against the New York Mets 6,837,120 minutes...
...fight when he meets President Clinton at Thursday's summit meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Amid rising Western alarm over Moscow?s military campaign in Chechnya, Clinton plans to warn Yeltsin that Russia's policy of flattening the breakaway region in order to strike at terrorists is a "dead end," and that external mediation is required. But Yeltsin no longer regards Clinton a policy adviser in good standing, and he?s made abundantly clear that Moscow regards Chechnya as an entirely domestic matter. "For Moscow, Western criticism has made Chechnya more than simply...
...Johnson, and when the defendant's right to a new trial is unclear, how will those judges decide? The perverse political incentives make it seem inevitable that a defendant who may not deserve the death penalty will some day receive it because the judges are too afraid to strike it down...
Similar to Berman's near miss, Stewart's strike off a free-kick sailed just over the Eagle crossbar after beating Schaeffer...
...journalists, already reeling from editorial cutbacks, when she called the newsroom a "velvet coffin," implying that more deadwood needed to be eliminated. When several editors were later chastised for letting Chandler's note be read to the open newsroom, some Times journalists talked of staging a one-day byline strike. "Downing is public enemy No. 1," said a reporter. "There's a bloodlust in the newsroom." Which probably means there will be more juicy headlines about the unsettled Times...