Word: striking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...November to allow China entry into the World Trade Organization, according to Tuesday?s New York Times. But the fact that any deal would have to pass both houses of Congress has Beijing doubting whether Mr. Clinton can deliver, even if they do manage to strike a deal. And, of course, that's a big "if." The two sides were reportedly close to agreement when Premier Zhu Rongji visited Washington in April, but the fallout from the Chinese nuclear espionage allegations prompted President Clinton to back out - a decision, according to the Times, he now deeply regrets...
...wish to hell I knew. We have a lot of pitchers out there who don't want the hitters to hit the ball, so it's ball one, ball two, strike one, ball three. Years ago, it used to be, "I dare...
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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...
...sense that the administration needed to make some kind of gesture in response to the embassy bombings, to be seen to be doing something," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "They were experimenting with cruise missiles as a low-risk way of dealing with these issues, but the Sudan strike showed how that can backfire. We also have to ask whether by attacking Bin Laden ineffectively, we've actually boosted his importance." To be sure, painstaking police and intelligence work by U.S. agencies and their foreign allies has netted Bin Laden operatives all over the world over the past year...