Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John Thompson had pledged to boycott the game as a protest against NCAA Proposition 42, a stringent new regulation enacted last week to prevent the academically deficient from competing in intercollegiate athletics...
Since last summer, Charles Laquidara has interrupted his rock-'n'-roll rap on Boston's WBCN-FM to urge commuters to boycott Shell Oil. Pointing out that an affiliate of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group supplies fuel to South Africa's army and police, the deejay has persuaded more than 1,000 listeners to cut up their Shell credit cards...
...move is largely symbolic: the city has done only $2,500 in business with Shell in two years. Calling the action "misguided," a Shell spokesman said the company has been a strong antiapartheid voice in South Africa. Boston was joined by Berkeley, whose city council ordered a similar boycott of Shell...
...sense, then, Larry White, who is not a doctor, is not calling on us to quit smoking for health reasons. He is calling for a boycott of the tobacco industry on moral grounds. Charging the officials of such companies as R J Reynolds and Phillip Morris as being the vendors of fatality, White paints an incredibly grim picture of an industry that thrives on fraud, deception and a complete lack of social responsibility...
...black townships, however, the government's repression-and-persuasion campaign to bring out a symbolic vote of support for segregated politics was defeated by an overwhelming boycott. Although only 26.3% of registered black voters had gone to the polls, Chris Heunis, the minister in charge of planning a new constitution, claimed that "the government's objectives were undoubtedly met." If so, the government had set decidedly modest objectives. Since only 1.5 million of the more than 20 million blacks living outside the four "independent homelands" are registered, the turnout translates into less than 2.0% of South Africa's blacks...