Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...June 29, Medical Area workers voted not to authorize District 65, Distributive Workers of America, to represent them in their future negotiations with Harvard, dealing the union a stunning blow. But the University's 436-346 victory came only after Harvard adopted a new strategy to beat back District 65's effort to organize Med Area clerical and technical workers--a strategy that may not hold up next year, when union representatives say they will file for another election in the Med Area...
...Ethiopians are at swords' points now, but what is to prevent them some day from getting together and carving us up?" Last month Somalia-supported guerrillas operating inside southern Ethiopia blew up the Addis-Djibouti rail line in three places, closing it indefinitely. That was a serious blow to the economy of Djibouti, which depends on Ethiopia not only for customs and transit revenues but also for its fruit and vegetables. On the eve of independence, local markets were virtually bereft of produce...
...that jogging is now a full-blown fad. Good! If we are to judge from other fads, that means it will blow over in a few months, or at most a year or so. Like, for instance, Hula Hoops...
Last week, in a 7 to 2 decision, the Supreme Court sidestepped the constitutional problems in the case, but it dealt what dissenting Justice Thurgood Marshall called "a fatal blow" to most of the means of enforcing the Civil Rights Act in religious cases. The majority decision, written by Byron White, said that many employees had "strong but perhaps nonreligious reasons for not working on weekends," and that the law cannot be construed to "require an employer to discriminate against some employees in order to enable others to observe their Sabbath." White said there was no objection to employers...
Strike another blow for conspicuous consumption...