Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Attention Northwest passengers: Midnight EDT is the deadline before the airline's pilots go on strike. In anticipation, Northwest has already canceled 400 flights this weekend. Negotiations, as they say, are proceeding around the clock...
...intelligence leaks came as the Security Council put off a decision on whether to send U.N. inspectors to the plant. "I don't see what the purpose of a fact-finding study would be," said U.S. representative Peter Burleigh. "We already have credible information that fully justifies the strike." And as if by magic, that information appeared all over Tuesday's media. But the story creates more queries than it answers -- such as, why didn't the U.S. strike at a second Sudanese factory where it says Iraqi nerve gas scientists were working? And won't there still be traces...
...bombing of a Planet Hollywood restaurant in Cape Town, South Africa, is unlikely to be the work of Osama bin Laden, but it suggests that backlash from last week's U.S. missile strike may originate in quarters far outside the super-terrorist's own networks. A group calling itself Muslims Against Global Oppression said the Tuesday evening blast that killed two people and wounded 21 was in retaliation for the strike on Afghanistan and Sudan. A group of the same name had protested against President Clinton's visit to the city earlier this year, which suggests the attackers may have...
...year vigilante war against the city's drug dealers, and have used pipe bombs to attack suspected gang members on a number of occasions. If such disparate elements are now turning their attention to attacking targets linked (however spuriously) to the U.S., it may be a sign that the strike on Bin Laden has fueled a response to his call for global jihad...
...patients in this case. Retained soon after the scandal broke to represent Monica's mother, Marcia Lewis, he quickly devised ways of moving the women around town without notice of the camera crews, using techniques he honed as a 1980s prosecutor in the San Francisco organized-crime strike-force office. There he planned movements of such famous guests of the federal witness-protection program as Aladena ("Jimmy the Weasel") Fratianno...