Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WHEN IN DANGER OF ATTACK, STRIKE FIRST! That's the message Russian President Boris Yeltsin sent as he went on the offensive against hard-line political opponents, banning a new conservative group pledged to remove him from office and ordering the dissolution of an opposition-controlled security force. Citing "great danger" and accusing the group of "destabilizing society," Yeltsin outlawed the week-old National Salvation Front, a mixture of militant nationalists and Old Guard communists, who are determined to slow economic reforms and oust the President. The front vowed to defy Yeltsin...
...pall of dust that could block sunlight for months. Plants would be largely wiped out, and so would many species that ultimately depend on plants for food -- including, perhaps, the human race. Just such a disaster, many scientists believe, killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. A smaller strike in the Atlantic 35 million years ago, described in a U.S. Geological Survey report released last week, sent a 300-m- high (1,000-ft.) wall of water over much of the U.S. East Coast...
...nothing to stop. "He became captain after the Titanic had already hit the iceberg," Shaiken says. A strapping 6-ft. 4-in. former college football tackle with a booming voice but a gentle nature, Stempel took a conciliatory approach toward downsizing the work force. When a United Auto Workers strike shut down 14 of GM's factories in August and September, Stempel agreed to add 900 jobs at two Lordstown, Ohio, plants where workers had complained about being shorthanded. Earlier, Stempel had signed a U.A.W. contract that let workers draw 95% of their wages for three years after being laid...
...Democratic victory may also render moot the 10-month-long effort by the student-faculty committee on ROTC to refashion Harvard's ties with ROTC, which bars gays and lesbians from its ranks. Clinton has promised to strike down by executive order the Pentagon's exclusionary practices...
...choice, supports the right of workers to strike, promises to make polluters clean up their mess and "opposes war," according to a voters' pamphlet statement...