Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...process. Shea says "Beth Israel was using legal procedure to delay and harass us--the issue was decided against them at every step." He adds the history of hostility between the hospital and the union shows a hospital bias against unions and a willingness to use any tactic to prevent hospital workers from joining unions. By appealing the case, Shea says, the hospital effectively prevented any distribution of union literature for four years...
...continuing last year's experimental Expos sections affiliated with two large introductory courses in the English Department. He says it is hard to find students to fill these sections because there is only one section for each course, and freshmen in the course often have irresolvable scheduling conflicts that prevent them from attending that section. "Maybe if all the sections were affiliated with Core course that problem would fall," he adds...
...sectarian violence that resulted in at least 16 other deaths. Outraged by Western-style diversions that they consider affronts to Islamic tradition, fanatic Shi'ites had set fire to 29 movie houses and scores of restaurants and nightclubs. In Babol on the Caspian Sea, a mob tried to prevent the opening of a touring Italian circus, retreating only after its owner threatened to let loose his lions on the crowd...
Police detained six suspects. Among them: the owner of the Rex, who was charged with negligence for having ordered his employees to lock the exits to prevent terrorists from entering the theater. But opposition groups outside Iran accused SAVAK, the Shah's secret police, of setting the blaze in order to provoke a backlash against dissident groups. Many Iranians, however, blamed Ayatullah Khomeini, a Shi'ite mullah (religious leader) who has lived in exile in Iraq since 1963. Khomeini swore unrelenting enmity to the Shah after hundreds of his followers were killed while protesting the monarch's land-reform program...
...keep the presses rolling. Automation has not much altered their jobs. The presses roll twice as fast as they did in 1923, when a strike set the manning levels and work rules that pretty much prevail today, but the union has argued that faster presses require more pressmen to prevent accidents and breakdowns...