Word: erects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...during which time the NLRB defines which workers are eligible to vote as part of the union's potential "bargaining unit." But previous elections at Harvard have been delayed for up to two years by legal challenges from the University administration. During this election the administration is expected to erect legal stumbling blocks to delay the union campaign on whether research assistants or other categories of workers should be eligible to vote...
...with Najib. Says Mohammed Nuristani, a rebel fighter: "How can we sit down with a man who has killed so many of our friends?" Another reason is the rivalry among rebel leaders. They range from religious zealots like Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of Hezb-e-Islami (Gulbuddin), who want to erect a theocratic state, to Muslim moderates like Pir Gailani who favor the traditional Afghan way of life...
...Lampoon will also erect a bronze statue of Elmer that will resemble the John Harvard figure, establish a resident Elmer Scholar position, and endow an Elmer fund to spend on Elmer research...
...course, there must be lawyers. American Civil Liberties Union attorneys complained about a plan to erect a 100-ft.-high cross at the state- owned Tamiami Park for a papal Mass in Miami. Under a compromise agreement, Catholic officials will cover the cross with black fabric until the day of the actual event. Finally, no one would know anything about the whole undertaking without the media. More than 16,000 members of the press have been accredited. Spann says they have all requested a personal interview with the Pope...
Noenoelani, kneeling, chants and finger taps the puniu, a small coconut- shell drum lashed to the thigh, and thumps the pahu hula, a larger sharkskin- covered drum. Hauolionalani, leis at wrists and ankles, head erect, chants a formal request -- "Let me in, I'm cold" -- to be admitted to the halau, or dance school. Noenoelani replies as the teacher, "Come in, all I have to offer is my voice . . ." Her daughter begins the rhythmic, liquid swaying of the hula...