Word: movement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some faculty members have been rallying in support of the workers, said Walter I. Cohen, professor of comparative literature and the unofficial leader of the faculty movement to support the union. Cohen said faculty members are working to circulate a petition supporting UAW's demands, and are also trying to raise money to help support striking workers...
...What struck me most is that there was broad support from all areas of campus," said Nick Salvatore, an American history professor involved in the faculty movement. "A lot of faculty who may not have been politically active in the last 10 years feel it's worth writing letters" in support of the union, he said...
...diatribe also deliberately misquotes, and lifts out of context, a comment I made in a discussion of a complex subject, namely, the paradoxical relationship between British conservatism and the abolitionist movement during the eighteenth century. My discussion was not an attack on British conservatism--the paradoxical reationship is an established historical fact--and only the most ignorant kind of extremist could misinterpret what I said in the way your reviewer...
...harder, of course, to predict the fate of a nation than it is to predict the trajectory of a satellite. But Cory Aquino and her People Power movement, like Skylab, are losing the momentum needed to keep aloft. Isolated from the left and under increasing threat from the nation's military, Cory Aquino may well find herself living next door to Ferdinand Marcos before Christmas...
...Radicals tried to downplay the resurgence of the blue collar-based Peronist movement. "We knew it was coming," said Edgardo Catterberg, a party pollster. "There was a national sense of unfulfilled expectations." At issue was the government's handling of the economy. Inflation, which was running in the single digits two years ago, is now nearly 14%. Alfonsin's determination to make regular interest payments on Argentina's $54 billion foreign debt also continues to stir controversy. Addressing a business group late in the week, he cautioned, "We have lost the elections, but the tree has not fallen...