Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Convisser has called for consumers to boycott two business she said had aided anti-abortion activists, including Operation Rescue. They are Domino's Pizza, which has 800 stores nationwide, and the Tara hotels, which are owned by The Flatley Co., a Braintree developer...
...question of timing also was unclear. Takeshita, 65, said he would resign after Parliament passes the budget for the 1989 fiscal year that began April 1. But the budget has been delayed by an opposition boycott of Parliament over the stock-trading scandal...
They said the boycott was a peaceful, legal attempt to force communist authorities to meet with them and discuss demands for a free press, an end to official corruption and other reforms...
...produced a reasoned report with such compassion for homosexuals, whom he had once called antifamily. Phyllis Schlafly, who said the report sounded as if it had been edited by a gay-rights group, lashed out against Koop and led a campaign against him. Her efforts culminated in the boycott of a dinner in honor of Koop and persuaded two presidential candidates, Representative Jack Kemp and Senator Robert Dole, to pull out as sponsors...
...1970s has a Big Oil company been so vilified. From corner filling stations to the halls of Congress, Exxon came under attack last week for its role in the Alaskan oil spill. In Washington leaders of two consumer groups gathered near an Exxon station to call for a nationwide boycott of the company's products. On New York's Long Island, Suffolk County Executive Pat Halpin said the local government would cut its contractual ties with Exxon as a supplier. In California a lawsuit was filed that accused the oil company of boosting gasoline prices to help pay the cost...