Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concentrating our efforts on thispicket, since more people are free on Wednesdays,but we've done a little light-weight picketing forthe other firms on our boycott list," Kohanskisaid...
Tiff Wood: the unluckiest man in rowing. After rowing with the Rude and Smooth, Wood was selected as the spare on the 1976 Olympic team, but never rowed a stroke. He was captain of the 1980 men's team, but the U.S. boycott cost him that chance. He lost out for the 1984 Olympic team, and ended up as the spare again...
...1970s there was widespread resentment as Watergate culprits cashed in with books -- among them, John Dean's Blind Ambition, Charles Colson's Born Again and John Ehrlichman's The Company. By the time Richard Nixon's book came along, in 1978, a Committee to Boycott Nixon's Memoirs had been born. Its slogan, "Don't buy books from crooks," failed to work; the Nixon tome earned him $2.2 million, and the hardback became a best seller. But the phrase caught the spirit of the only official ethical stand that Americans have ventured on sensational exploitations. In some 30 states...
Toting signs which read "Harvard won't tolerate intolerance" and "Howie Carr, you've gone too far," the protesters urged students to boycott the study group and criticized the IOP for inviting the controversial columnist to teach the group, which is scheduled to meet on Tuesday afternoons this fall...
...boycott may have been more of a plug for the study group than a drawback, as 43 people attended Carr's introductory meeting, anunusually large crowd for a not-for-credit studysession...