Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...union's strong demands reflect "a nationwide grass roots labor movement to fight concessions by the workers," says Bozzotto. "The labor movement has to be strengthened in response to the rampant lay-offs across the country," he adds. "Concessions won't save jobs anymore...
...responds to attacks. Recently he analyzed himself in the diary. "The first phase is the defensive one," he wrote. "For a short time there is regret, distaste, a desire to return to solitude, separation, the back of the store with the partitioned quiet. But only briefly. Time to fight back. Then the desire for separation turns to an eagerness, even a combativeness. I become almost comfortable with the idea I am under siege." Under siege, Cuomo can be hard. Last year when Democratic Leader Robert Strauss commented that if Cuomo became a presidential candidate, he needed to be less...
...salesman in the Bronx, Kampelman had graduated from New York University and was working his way through law school when he was drafted in 1942. A Jew, he cited religious reasons in declaring himself a conscientious objector. Says he: "I just couldn't see myself killing anyone." Rather than fight, he volunteered for alternative service in a program at the University of Minnesota on the effects of starvation. His weight plunged 25%, to close to 100 lbs. To keep his mind off food, he pursued a doctorate in political science and after the war became an instructor at the university...
...Doing away with the capital-gains break could hurt entrepreneurial companies like Silicon Valley's electronics upstarts, which depend on venture-capital financing. Reason: those potential backers would lose an important incentive if their profits were taxed at a higher rate. Says California Senator Alan Cranston, who plans to fight the committee's change: "It would put a tremendous obstacle in the path of the innovative young men and women who can create the technologies of the future...
...Sandinistas' legendary "Commander Zero," stormed Managua's National Palace, paving the way for Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle's flight into exile. Soon feeling % powerless in a government that he charged was run by Communists, Pastora helped form the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance (ARDE) and began receiving covert U.S. aid to fight the Sandinistas. But the funds were cut off when Pastora refused to cooperate with other rebel forces...