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...Expletive] man, I’m trying to find my car,” said Seattle Supersonics guard Kenny Anderson to a young fan asking for an autograph during the 1998-1999 NBA Lockout. Anderson was walking out of the meeting when a cameraman caught him brushing off a young fan asking for an autograph. Though Anderson later claimed that he was actually talking to a heckler off-camera, the former Celtics point guard also joked that if the NBA Lockout continued, he’d be very upset because he “might have to sell...
...American economic sneeze gives the world a cold, does a shutdown of America's West Coast ports mean Asia is about to come down with pneumonia? Thanks to an executive injunction by President George W. Bush ordering a temporary end to a 10-day U.S. dockworker lockout, the region avoided a trip to the emergency room. But it will take months before shipping traffic disrupted by the port shutdown returns to normal, and the economic threat will linger...
...Numbers 400 dockworker jobs may be at risk from efficient new technology at the center of a labor dispute that has shut down ports on the U.S. west coast $1 billion is how much the dockworker lockout costs the U.S. economy each day it continues, according to the Pacific Maritime Association 79% of Indians who sold a kidney for transplant said they would not recommend it to others, citing deteriorating health and no lasting financial benefits $9 billion a month is how much it could cost the U.S. to wage war against Iraq, according to a new congressional study...
Sills said the boycott is a reaction to this lockout, for which the union may be able to sue Loews...
...enlisted the help of Cambridge City Councillor Marjorie C. Decker, who denounced Loews’ actions “unconscionable” and joined in one of their Friday night protests in the Square. Decker has also successfully moved to have the City Council investigate the legality of the lockout...