Word: docked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angry dock workers moved huge blockades across the entrance to their port near the Panama Canal to fight off an army takeover by troops loyal to Noriega...
...Balboa Port, about a mile outside the Panama Canal, about 300 striking dock workers moved carsized containers across the port entrance to fight off an army takeover ordered Thursday by the government...
...saving, they will be doing so voluntarily. At least some consumers are already showing signs of disillusionment with the rat race of materialism. Fear of hard times may be a growing incentive to save, along with anger over America's economic weakness. One New York savings bank, Dollar Dry Dock, was playing on those emotions in a recent full-page newspaper ad: IF YOU WANT TO HELP YOURSELF AND CONTRIBUTE TO BUILDING AMERICA'S ECONOMIC STRENGTH, CONSIDER 'SOCKING AWAY' A LITTLE MORE OF YOUR INCOME. A shrewd pitch: saving is not only savvy, but patriotic to boot...
...quote Marvin Gaye, "What's Going On?" In the words of Otis Redding, "How about a little respect?" Unfortunately, when I hear "Dock of the Bay" I no longer think about Otis wasting time in San Francisco but about smiling yuppies drinking Hires root beer...
...Dock Martin army boots, a Bomber jacket with an American flag on the back or on the shoulder, red suspenders and a hardcore t-shirt comprise the skinhead uniform. Women skinheads dress similarly but don a bandanna over their heads, with a few tufts of hair jutting out from underneath...