Word: strikingly
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...President and named for its chief sponsor, Representative James Delaney of New York. This landmark law prohibits even the tiniest trace of potentially cancer-causing additives in juices, jellies, flour, baked goods and thousands of other processed foods. Most pesticide laws -- for example, the ones that cover fresh foods -- strike a balance between risk and benefit, allowing for tiny amounts of man-made chemicals if they help farmers protect crops. Not Delaney. Any amount of a potential carcinogen in processed food is grounds for banning the chemical product...
...actually began in January, shortly after Zuckerman bought the News for $36.3 million. Once the top tabloid in the U.S., with a circulation of 3 million (now 777,000), the paper had been crippled by a strike and a hemorrhaging of advertising revenues wrought largely by the recession. Zuckerman could not hope to go head to head against the steady New York Times, but he had to be concerned about two other dailies. One was the genteel, struggling New York Newsday, once described by a News editor as "a tabloid in a tutu." The other, to be sure...
Johannesburg, meanwhile, was virtually shut down by a violent taxi-driver strike. The protesters, whose minibuses daily shuttle thousands of blacks between the city and adjacent townships, claim they are constantly harassed by traffic police. Gasoline-bomb attacks against government-owned buses and a blockade of city streets led to pitched battles with security forces, during which at least two people were killed and 100 injured...
PICK YOUR BASEBALL METAPHOR: MAJOR LEAGUE baseball owners could have benched Marge Schott, called strike three, hit her with a pitch. Instead they balked, bunted, let her off easy. Charges that the Cincinnati Reds owner used such phrases as "dumb lazy nigger" and "dirty Jews" led the owners' executive council to fine her $25,000 and give her a one-year suspension starting March 1. Schott is a millionaire, so the fine is just lunch money; if she behaves herself and attends "multicultural training programs," she can return to baseball by Nov. 1 -- more of a seventh-inning stretch than...
...collectors ready to believe that practically anything could be the Wave of the Future. The Hoovers were hoovered up. Then came some aquarium tanks in which basketballs floated, weighed down by a solution of Epsom salts and water to neutralize their buoyancy. These rather banal objects still strike Koons' fans as veritable icons of mystery and memory. "They are . . . dead things," writes curator John Caldwell, "and we realize with a shock that that is what they are for us as well, something from the past, our own youth, familiar once and fraught with memories. . . It suddenly dawns on us that...