Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hour time difference between the U.S. and Korea, which means that some of the most popular events will not be seen live by a large part of the world audience. NBC hopes to have better luck with the broadcasts than it did in 1980, when a U.S.-led boycott of the Moscow Games resulted in a $34 million loss for the network...
...seven professors who sit on the committee have grown weary, too. Many curtailed summers of research to be in town for hearings that students were going to boycott anyway. Now, five months to the day since most of the Harvard community first heard the letters C-R-R, the committee is still deliberating cases and faces the task of compiling a voluminous report on its investigations...
...move followed a U.S. decision to boycott court proceedings regarding charges that the U.S. was aiding guerillas trying to overthrow Nicaragua's leftist government...
...renounce the nuclear winter concept and may have been kidnaped by the KGB. According to another theory, the physicist defected to the West. In any case, a delegation of Soviet scientists skipped an annual conference in Sicily this summer, giving neither an explanation nor an advance warning of the boycott...
...trying to send the message that Easterners do not approve of the Coors Company policy," Grossman said. This boycott is simply to hurt Coors economically and put them out of business, because they have been so racist, sexist, homophobic and anti-union...