Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...UMWA deserves your support because they are right. Dead right. This strike isn't about demands for outlandish salaries or featherbedded work rules. The miners on the pickets of Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky are struggling over the basic dignities that American workers can reasonably expect--the right to bargain collectively in good faith, the right to a contract and the right to health benefits for retirees, disabled workers and surviving spouses...
...shocked. If I had anything else to do, I'd change my job." From that day on, he has placed the ivory section with the bullet on his family altar. "We sprinkle some water on it every day," he says, "so we can pacify the spirits of the dead elephants." Even as he speaks, there are more and more elephant spirits to placate, and the clack of tusk against tusk in Africa grows fainter and fainter...
...trouble is quite literal; by the end of the movie he has gone blind. But this blindness is also symbolic. By visiting this affliction on the only character in his movie who has remained close to God, Allen is suggesting that if the Deity himself is not dead, then he must be suffering from severely impaired vision...
Last week, 35 Harvard men stopped that evolution dead in its tracks. The revival of a Harvard chapter of Sigma Alpha Mu, a predominantly Jewish national fraternity, is a giant leap backwards for a community that strives towards diversity...
...This is definitely not an issue that is dead," said Senate President Billy Jacobson. "We can work together to come up with a more efficiently and coherently worded policy...