Word: boycotts
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...connect with students. Quad e-mail lists erupted as people tried to figure out what had happened to everyone’s favorite shuttle driver. Worried students made phone calls, and one junior even proclaimed a “No Shuttle Day,” calling for a boycott...
...review does little to facilitate free intellectual dissemination. Scientific manuscripts are typically reviewed by a small number of anonymous experts, who have a throttlehold on whom and what deserves attention. In October 2000, three concerned biomedical scientists founded the Public Library of Science (PLoS), calling on fellow scientists to boycott journals that refused to make full-text papers part of the public domain within six months of publication. Yet although some scientific publishers conformed to the PLoS’s policy guidelines, most remained unresponsive.Undeterred, PLoS continued its dedication to the principle of open access. This November awaits the launch...
...defense team is hoping that their boycott will stall the trial or return the ousted judge. But there is no intention to do either, says an Iraqi government official close to the court. "It can proceed legally, and it will...
...Shepherd?s Bush Empire Theatre in London and said, "We?re ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas." In the vivacious new documentary Shut Up & Sing: Dixie Chicks, Maines is seen watching TV later in 2003 as George Bush opines on the Dixie Chicks boycott that sprang up in opposition to her comment. When he tells Tom Brokaw, "They shouldn?t have their feelings hurt just because some people don?t buy their records when they speak out," Maines explodes. "?They shouldn?t have their feelings hurt?? What a dumb...
...Feed, and students feel that their privacy has been restored. But all the students did was click a button to join an Anti-News Feed group on Facebook or sign the online petition - a protest that took less than a minute. There were no massive demonstrations or a significant boycott. Facebook's membership has continued to increase every day since the News Feed was implemented. And were Facebook itself not the subject of the protests, it's unlikely that the students' actions would have brought such a quick result...