Word: strikingly
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Having shown American military might and hinted at our willingness to use it, the actual use of force would at this point seem both unnecessary and inhumane--in addition to likely being ineffective. A limited bombing strike would not get rid of Hussein. According to a U.S. military estimate reported in the New York Times last week, a four-day limited strike would cost 1,500 Iraqi deaths. It would further raise anti-U.S. sentiment among the people of the Middle East. And it would alienate a number of our allies...
...understand enough about the world, and I'm hoping that my peers here--people from all over the world and all types of backgrounds--will show me their little corner of it, their little piece of the whole that makes them special. Every once in a while I strike gold--the study session that turns into a debate about inter-racial relations, the meeting of two individuals waiting in line for a professor's office hours that turns into a passionate discussion of what really matters in a work of art. But these lucky chances are just that--lucky chance...
With over three years left for both players, that notion should strike fear into the hearts of every opposing coach...
...protests would die down, with the help of a stern Bernard Shaw and some menacing security guards. But the reasoned questions, too, reflected something that will surely trouble Clinton in the coming days: This time around, America is getting gun-shy. Many wondered whether a military strike would accomplish any final objective; others considered the U.S.' record on U.N. resolutions to be spotty at best. A veteran wanted to be assured that the U.S. would "not be half-assed" this time and finish the job, whatever it took. And from Cohen, Albright and Berger, the answers were not always convincing...
Daily Spin "Easiest job ever!!!" --A brochure for nuclear-waste-eating "California Red Superworms" sold by a New Mexico man, Thomas Huntington, for $500 per 4 lbs. Huntington, 51, was arrested for multiple counts of fraud after convincing would-be entrepreneurs they could strike it rich breeding the worms for sale to nuclear-waste facilities...