Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question, the Massachussets Commission Against Discrimination, a quasi-judicial body, will decide whether the clubs should be required to admit women. As a philosophical question, final clubs will always be debated and never resolved. But as a practical question, the solution for students is obvious: Males and females should boycott the clubs...
...Adolph Coors' family has never been popular with the left. Its support for right-wing causes (such as the Nicaraguan Contras) and history of acrimonious relations with organized labor and minority groups led to a long-running boycott of Coors beer by labor unions and other liberal concerns. Although the AFL-CIO recently ended its boycott, refusing to drink the Silver Bullet remains a common badge of political correctness on campus...
...enraged by falsely labeled Union food, boycott hamburger extra-vanganza and venerable vegetables. If you are tired of doing homework, take a break and wait in line for basketball courts. And if you are sick of meeting interesting people, go to final club parties...
Elsewhere, the reaction was outrage. Britain's antiapartheid movement demanded that the rebel players be banned forever. Sports Minister Colin Moynihan advised them not to go, and Tanzanian Foreign Minister Benjamin Mkapa warned that African nations might boycott the 1990 Commonwealth Games...
...Other results of pressure do not turn out as well. Unfortunately, people in certain regions were deprived of the chance to see The Last Temptation of Christ in the theater. Some, no doubt, considered it a loss that they could not buy lettuce or grapes during a Chavez boycott. Perhaps there was even a buyer perverse enough to miss driving the unsafe cars Nader helped pressure off the market. On the other hand, we do not get sports analysis made by racists. These mobilizations of social opprobrium are not examples of repression but of freedom of expression by committed people...