Word: occurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cautious police attitude led quickly to charges that they were allowing violence to occur without interfering. The following night, police, aided by stewards, actively tried to break up gangs of black youths who were menacing black and white passersby. The bullyboys turned on the cops and stewards, showering them with stones, bricks and bottles. Then an order went out: "Move forward! Plenty of noise, lads." Phalanxes of goggled police, whooping and beating their 5-ft. plastic riot shields with batons, charged through mobs of petrified teenagers. When the battle ended half an hour later, the day's injuries totaled...
...terms of peace, not about the Palestinian question. Moreover, the Secretary of State has managed to secure at least one positive sign: the Arabs genuinely want to keep talking. Nonetheless, the odds of a Geneva Conference by October are virtually nil, though Vance still hopes that a reunion will occur by the end of the year That, however, will depend upon a tremendous amount of work-and luck...
...could the walkout occur in an industry governed by a no-strike pact? ENA permits strikes over local issues, like job assignments, and some of these are involved in the ore walkout. But the big issue is a miners' demand that they collect incentive payments for increased production, as 85,000 workers in steel mills do. To U.S.W. officials in Pittsburgh, who gave their permission for locals at twelve mines to strike, whether any particular mill or mine grants incentive payments is a local issue, unrelated to the general wage level set by national contracts negotiated under...
...life. Says Tom Hayden, one of the founders of the Students for a Democratic Society, who last year ran against John Tunney in the California senatorial race: "We ended a war, toppled two Presidents, desegregated the South, broke other barriers of discrimination." That is hyperbolic; such changes did not occur until a broader nonradical public became disillusioned. But the energies of the young during the "60s made Americans begin to think about their environment, about the poor, about the purposes of progress. One of the most enduring products of the decade could be women's liberation. Because...
...career." Another plaintiff, a 19-year-old junior, alleged she was subjected to repeated "sexual harassment" this spring every time she visited an English professor's office to discuss term papers. Anne Simon, a Yale Law School alumna who is representing the plaintiffs, estimates that 75 such incidents occur at Yale every semester...