Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...controversial "explanatory opinions" he forcefully supported the U.S. Supreme Court's school prayer decision, and he spoke out in a personally difficult situation against last year's boycott of the Boston schools due to de facto segregation. While adopting the politically safe course of not passing judgment on the racial balance of the schools, he ruled that children's parents were responsible for their attendance under any circumstances...
...from 45 to 50 paise, making two cups an even rupee (21?). Kapoor shouted the grim news to friends. "This is the last straw!" cried someone. "No, the last cup!" yelled someone else. Suddenly the customers were on their feet, protesting against the rising prices and calling for a boycott. Hastily finishing their coffee, customers marched out without paying...
Spreading Blame. The boycotters spent the rest of the morning picketing the café with signs, "Don't pay more today than you paid yesterday." Later, they pitched a tent on the sidewalk and started selling their own coffee at 25 paise a cup. Soon a Price Resistance Committee was organized to spread the boycott to other restaurants and shops. Among the joiners were Chidambaram Subramaniam, India's Food Minister, and Asoka Mehta, deputy chairman of India's Planning Commission...
...government, which blames middlemen and profiteers for India's severe food shortage and disastrously mounting prices, gave strong backing to the consumer boycott. But the problems are, in part, of the government's own making, for it has done little or nothing to rationalize India's largely state-controlled economy, or to provide incentives and modern methods for Indian agriculture...
Last week, while children bawled and mothers screamed defiance, police hauled the demonstrators off to criminal court after a melee that stunned the nation's biggest school system. The demonstrators were old hands: members of Parents and Taxpayers (P.A.T.), the white organization that staged a massive citywide school boycott last month in an unsuccessful attempt to pressure the board into canceling calculated plans for ending defacto segregation at a handful of New York City's 850 public schools...