Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...GOING TO fight for your rights," Rick said...
...Maguire, director of the labor assistance program for the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO: "Labor is not supporting testing in the workplace. As part of a physical exam for new employees, it is acceptable, but otherwise there are problems of violating civil rights." Some unions also fight against firings of workers with drug problems. Rockwell's Frankel quit as the company's medical director in 1983 partly because, he says, management repeatedly gave in to union demands that drug abusers be reinstated in their jobs...
...fight for more military aid to the contras, Nicaragua's rebel forces, he took off his gloves and came out swinging, warning of "strategic disaster" if Congress thwarted him. Emboldened by the U.S. role in helping to achieve a peaceful transition in Manila, he made a rather forced comparison: "We stood for democracy in the Philippines," he said. "We have to stand for democracy in Nicaragua." He conjured up visions of an inexorable Communist advance: "If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red eventually lapping at our own borders...
...page letter, which comes at a time of increasing criticism of Harvard policies in South Africa, reviews the university's efforts to fight apartheid...
With morning play scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m., and finals slated to start around 8 p.m., the 10 competing squads will fight it out on the astro turf for indoor soccer bragging rights...