Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Force officers are already complaining that even the agreed upon START level of 10,000 warheads would leave the U.S. short, with "more targets than weapons available to strike them." General John Chain, commander of the Strategic Air Command, insists that he must have 75 B-2 Stealth bombers, each carrying 16 weapons, to offset the START limit on missile-delivered nukes. "Forty-nine hundred missile-carried warheads," says Chain, "are not enough to destroy the Soviet Union...
...Louisiana bill and the court's rulings bring to a head the two fierce battles fought this past year: the pro-life movement's push to deny abortion to all pregnant women, even victims of rape and incest; and the pro-choice movement's effort to strike down parental-involvement laws as back-door ways to restrict abortion that do nothing to improve communication between parent and child...
...would have been the perfect climax to a lengthy and noble postseason. Two weeks before, the Red Sox themselves had been one strike away from defeat in the American League playoffs when Henderson himself sent an 0-2 pitch into the bleachers, paving the way for a Sox victory...
Could the omens have been any more promising? Henderson had struck gold twice for the Red Sox, saving them from the brink of defeat, and then bringing them within one strike of the ultimate victory. If the team couldn't win then, how could they ever be expected...
...Another 5,000 were arrested at South African consulates around the country. By that time the movement had developed powerful friends on Capitol Hill, including Kennedy and his fellow Democratic Senators Alan Cranston of California and Paul Simon of Illinois. They saw in the antiapartheid movement an opportunity to strike a blow against the otherwise unassailable Reagan...