Word: boycotts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Since then, he has founded a one-man sports dynasty of the sort that most athletes can only dream of achieving. He claimed his first world record (19 ft. 2 1/4 in.) in 1984, the same year the Soviet boycott forced him to miss the L.A. Olympics (two weeks before, he jumped six inches higher than the eventual gold medalist). He won a gold of his own at Seoul in 1988, and then set his sights on 20 ft.--a seemingly superhuman barrier that like the four-minute mile and the 8-ft. high jump, was regarded for years...
...allows American citizens and corporations to sue foreign firms that use confiscated American assets in Cuba. While the U.S. maintains a trade boycott against the island, hundreds of foreign companies, from Benetton to Toyota, have poured at least $5 billion into Cuba; and most U.S. companies would jump at the opportunity to invest--just as they are doing in Vietnam. Sponsored by two conservative Republicans, North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms and Indiana Congressman Dan Burton, the bill enjoyed strong support among Cuban Americans and the right. President Clinton, with an eye to re-election, signed it in March...
Billinguess, who works for the company representing Maryknoll's interests, said, "It is very clear with what is going on at Harvard that Pepsi is the target of a growing consumer boycott...
...council also voted on a resolution calling for a boycott on companies that invest in Burma by both the council and the University...
...FLIP-FLOP. A squabble over attempts to amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act is forging some strange alliances even as it opens up a bitter rift in the environmental movement. In the end, it may be business interests--once the villains in the piece but now terrified of a boycott by dolphin-loving consumers--that decide the matter...