Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Poland's rulers are fooling themselves if they believe Solidarity will quietly disappear. On Sunday and Monday, thousands of men and women stopped working in the Gdansk shipyards to protest the ban. Fugitive leaders of Solidarity called Monday for a four-hour nationwide strike on November 10. Outlawed or not, the union can still be a painful thorn in Jaruzelski's side...
...some comfort in the knowledge that Poles themselves are keeping the faith, even in the face of death. As Archbishop Jozef Glemp said Sunday in response to the banning. "We know that what is just, what is an ideal, cannot fall. Structures can be abolished, but no idea can disappear...
Schlevin attributed the act of vandalism, which he said was the first attack on Jewish property in Providence in years, to a combination of anti-Israeli feeling due to the Lebanon invasion and domestic economic problems. "This would all disappear if the economy took an upturn," he added...
Harvard's ivy may disappear from the walls of Lowell and Winthrop House this year, but if an Arnold Arboretum fundraising scheme is successful, it will continue to thrive in the gardens and yards of University alums...
...experts, though, say that the paybacks represent a permanent deterioration in the power of unions. Says Malcolm Denise, a labor lawyer and former head of labor relations at Ford Motor Co.: "Unions are experiencing a long-term decline because of shifting employment patterns. I don't see them disappearing from the industries that they have dominated, though some of those industries may disappear." David Lewis, a professor of business history at the University of Michigan, supports that view. Says he: "The prognosis is not good. Blue-collar workers have moved to the suburbs and lost interest, and unions have...