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...lunch in a remote village, a man named Ralph comes over to chide Fair. Ralph is a heavy contributor to the loon committee. "We had a loon around the dock yesterday," Ralph says. "I tried to hit it with a canoe paddle, but it got away...
...union is also taking its case to the public, to argue that it is fighting to save American jobs. Last week it launched a unique $2 million television-advertising campaign in 24 cities. One spot shows a Pontiac Sunbird convertible on a Brooklyn dock, where crates of auto parts from Korea, Japan, Brazil and Mexico are piled so high that they eventually hide the car. Says the narrator: "At the United Auto Workers we know America's future depends on American jobs...
...boycott. The next year, worn by a practice routine that had her up at 4:45 every morning from seventh grade through high school, she quit swimming, "I could eat cookies for lunch," she recalled last week. But after a year and a half in dry dock, she returned. "I hadn't finished my career the way I wanted to," she said. She had been a butterfly and individual-medley specialist, but she turned herself into a freestyle sprinter. Hogshead was prepared for this race: all 20 nails were painted...
...strike was settled not by artful negotiation but by an eruption of hot-tempered fury. As the walkout by Britain's 17,700 dock workers dragged into its second week, the truck drivers stuck at the port of Dover grew surlier. By late last week the motorway snaking through the tranquil Kent countryside had burgeoned into a five-mile parking lot, replete with the bellow of air horns and the whiff of rotting fruit destined never to reach its market. The curses grew saltier, the threats louder. Finally, an ultimatum came from the madding crowd: open the port...
...unions remain Thatcher's greatest affliction. The dock strike began after a nonunion worker was employed to move iron ore off the docks at Immingham, in eastern England. Though the procedure was routine, the Transport and General Workers' Union called a walkout. Union leaders pressed port employers to agree that nonunion help would never be used again, but the demand was rejected. Many dockers also suspected that the Thatcher government intended to seek a change in a 1947 law that effectively guarantees them jobs for life. The Prime Minister insisted that that was not the case...