Word: blooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unlearned everything we ever knew about democracy," Ron Bloom, international representative for the Service Employees Union, said, adding, "Normal working people should have control over their own lives...
Speaking at the panel discussion on the importance of organizing for political activism were Peter Dreier, a Tufts University professor of Sociology, Mary Mitchell, chairman of 9 to 5, a Boston women's office workers' organization, and Ron Bloom, a representative from the Service Employees International Union. David Blankenhorn '77, of Boston Fair Share, was the moderator...
Meanwhile, there were signs that Mitterrand was ending his honeymoon with the French electorate and that the bloom on the Socialist rose was beginning to fade. Inaugurating France's new, high-speed train last week (see SCIENCE), he was greeted with polite applause but no great enthusiasm. Hecklers bearing placards at stations along the way included members of the Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail, a union that enjoys close links to the Socialist Party. Their message: workers still expect Mitterrand to deliver on his promise of lowering unemployment and reducing...
...WINDS are changing; the bloom is fading from false mandates," labor chieftain Lane Kirkland said Saturday. And the size of his audience lent credence to his words--close to 300,000 trade unionists were crowded onto the Mall in our nation's capital to say they were sick already of President Reagan's economic policies...
...Deputy Party Chairman Deng Xiaoping, China's most powerful leader, who had permitted a modicum of dissent in the late 1970s, much as Mao had launched his shortlived "Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom" movement in 1957. Now Deng too has had second thoughts about the first faint burgeonings of freedom he inspired. Lately Deng has complained that the relative relaxation of recent years has led to a host of "unhealthy tendencies," most notably in literature and art. The press has referred darkly to the emergence of an artistic "counterculture" and complained of stories and plays that "propagate pessimism, nihilism...