Word: boycotts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pragmatic Secretary first won ovations from his audience by urging Arabs to take concrete steps toward accommodation with Israel, including transforming the violence of the intifadeh into political dialogue. "End the economic boycott. Stop the challenges to Israel's standing in international organizations," Baker implored. "Repudiate the odious line that Zionism is racism." Calling for serious political dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians, Baker asked both sides to consider every idea as "a dealmaker, not a deal breaker...
...Pope went with "JP II." If he knows baseball, he might wonder what ever happened to that era of priceless memories when small boys leaned out over dugout railings and haunted stadium gates. A number of contemporary players, like the Dodgers' Orel Hershiser and Don Mattingly of the Yankees, boycott the cattle calls. "Every kid is looking for a moment or hoping for a word, but no one ever even glances up," Mattingly says. "It's depressing." However, many of the modern stars -- Jose Canseco ($15), Roger Clemens ($9) and Will Clark ($8) among them -- seem to see the same...
...each other to exchange information and plot tactics. The radio campaign was widely credited with helping scuttle the pay increase. Now several of these hosts are leading the protests against Exxon's slow cleanup of the Alaska oil spill, collecting cut-up Exxon credit cards and advocating a company boycott. More such crusades may be in the offing. Williams, of Boston's WRKO-AM, has invited his fellow talk hosts to a convention in June. The aim, he says, is to "see what we have in common and see if we can get together on some issues...
Edwards is not alone in his concerns. Several talk hosts have opted out of the Exxon boycott ("We felt that cutting up credit cards hurts the local guys running the gas station," says Steve Cochran, of Minneapolis' KDWB-FM). Others oppose efforts to organize radio hosts nationwide. "All the bad it can do outweighs the good it can do," says talk-show veteran Larry King. A number of prominent talk hosts are staying away from the convention being organized by Jerry Williams, and the management of New York City's WABC-AM has forbidden its employees to attend. "We feel...
...last year, many were appalled when some Christians attempted to put a boycott on The Last Temptation of Christ because it offended some fundamentalists for its depiction of Jesus...