Word: march
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...shown for the students by workers, an allegiance that had not been so evident in earlier demonstrations. Thousands of workers streamed from their offices and factories into the spring sunshine to watch and cheer. Food vendors handed out free drinks and popsicles. Those who did not join in the march climbed atop buildings, billboards and subway entrances for a better view. At one intersection workers broke through a line of 200 police to clear a path for the procession...
...Guangxi and his fellow students took these actions as provocations and immediately began organizing their largest protest yet. "The government wants to intimidate us, but the measures they have resorted to only make us angry," he said minutes before the giant march began. Meanwhile, tear gas, helmets and ammunition were being readied for the police...
That eventually led to a showdown meeting on March 6 at which, according to a Brigham Young document, the scientists and top administrators from both universities were present. At issue was the timing of public statements. Pons and Fleischmann said they would prefer to wait before releasing results. Jones countered that he had been invited to talk about his work before the American Physical Society in May and that he intended to do so. According to Brigham Young, the meeting ended with an agreement to submit simultaneous papers to Nature on March 24. When Pons and Fleischmann suddenly announced their...
During the 16 months since the Palestinian uprising erupted in the occupied territories, international news organizations have suspected Israeli security agents of posing as foreign journalists in order to penetrate Arab villages. The government denied the charges. Last March, however, a British TV crew videotaped two Israeli agents disguised as journalists as they subdued a Palestinian woman...
...means; a decade of Arab aid and overambitious borrowing provided an illusion of prosperity. But lately the money has begun to run out. Since last summer the Jordanian dinar has fallen 45% in value, while unemployment (now about 15%) and inflation (up to 30%) climbed steadily. In late March the government agreed on a budget-balancing plan with the International Monetary Fund aimed at paring the country's deficit and, ultimately, rescheduling Jordan's $6 billion foreign debt. But the government's austerity plan included increases of 10% to 50% in the price of gasoline, alcohol, cigarettes and mineral water...