Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...phenomenal 5.5% growth of this year's first quarter, most foresee a healthy 2% to 3% expansion rate for the rest of the year. The employment picture also looks bright. The Labor Department reported last week that the jobless rate held steady at 4.5% in July despite a strike at General Motors that forced factory shutdowns. And even with the summer swoon, the Dow closed last week at 8,598, up almost 9% for the year...
Before the 1994 strike, I lived and breathed baseball and attended two to three dozen games a year. I knew it was a business, but I thought that--for the lords of baseball--the sport came first. When the postseason was canceled, and there was no World Series, I learned that baseball is a business first and a sport second. If the owners and players don't care about the outcome of a season, then why should I? Baseball may be back, but this disgruntled fan isn't. MARC I. WHINSTON New York City...
...spent most of his professional life in Chicago. He considered becoming a priest and attended Chicago's Quigley seminary. But he opted for law school (night classes at Loyola University) and soon landed a Justice Department job with the Chicago arm of John Kennedy's Organized Crime Strike Force. That position led to an early brush with history: he was with his boss Robert Kennedy hours before the Attorney General's brother was shot in Dallas. Schippers' credentials--including nailing reputed mobster Sam Giancana and regularly defending unpopular clients like 1980s porn star Seka--have left him with an urge...
Threats by Laurent Kabila's beleaguered government to strike against Rwanda have the taut tenor of songs of the doomed. "Kabila was brought to power by Tutsi soldiers from Rwanda and Burundi, and those same forces are now setting out to overthrow him," says TIME reporter Clive Mutiso. "This time they shouldn't need longer than 12 weeks to reach Kinshasa...
...film Ten Things I Hate About You, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt of 3rd Rock from the Sun, is "The Taming of the Shrew in high school." Next year's Cruel Inventions, with Gellar and Dawson's Joshua Jackson, was pitched as "Dangerous Liaisons in high school." Then there's Strike, billed as "Lysistrata in high school." Can a teen Finnegans Wake be far behind...