Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since that time, the CRR has not heard a case, and the house committees have continued to boycott it. Divestment protests last spring, including the construction of shanties in the middle of the Yard, did not result in any disciplinary cases...
CERTAINLY, we honor Martin Luther King for concrete reasons. Although many individuals were responsible for the great victories of the 1960s, it was King to whom the nation looked during the successful reformist phase of the movement. The Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Birmingham Protest, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were all major accomplishments for King, as he coordinated the downfall of Jim Crow segregation...
...prominent player in physicists' boycott of Star Wars, Kaku also makes time to teach colleagues and rally-goers the lessons he learned while still fresh out of college...
...success of the plan may depend on another factor: whether the government will reopen at least 50 black schools (out of a total of more than 7,000) that it has closed as a result of the black boycott or racial turmoil. In recent weeks a black-led movement has grown up favoring an end to the long "stayaway." Reason: many parents fear the boycott is permanently ^ crippling any hope for their children to receive a decent education. Among the groups urging a return to classroom normality: the United Democratic Front, the country's largest antiapartheid organization. A U.D.F. spokesman...
Some black educators, like Thomas Khambule, a former Soweto high school principal, believe the new education decree will only lead to more confrontation, boycott or no. "The Department of Education has declared a state of war," he said. "Our children are being sentenced to eternal ignorance." The department was noncommittal on the prospects of reopening the schools this week for the new term. That, said a spokesman, "depends on the reaction of parents and the community...