Word: protest
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Neighboring residents have mobilized to protest the plan in order to protect their neighborhood that was constructed during the Garden City Movement...
There's no question that many Chinese were willing to accept the need to show a united face to the world in the approach to the Olympics. But within days of the closing ceremony, a public protest demonstration against the government in a Beijing suburb signaled that the grace period was over. The string of disasters that has befallen the nation since then will only add to questions about where the limits of the long-suffering public's patience lie. This week, anger over the tainted-milk-powder scandal was palpable at one of Beijing's main Children's Hospitals...
...also continue to mount as the financial crisis in the U.S. unfolds. Major Japanese banks, for example, have some $3 billion in exposure to Lehman Bros., which filed for bankruptcy last week. Individuals have also been hurt. In Hong Kong, hundreds of residents who purchased Lehman bonds held a protest on Sunday demanding the government help secure their investments...
...complaints was the amount of work he suddenly had to do in order to navigate the Web site. “I had to drag from one corner to another to get from Facebook notes to my profile, for example,” he recalled. “In protest, I deactivated my account on the spot,” Not all students are as incensed about the redesign as Bethel. “I didn’t like it at first,” said Christian L. Garland ’10, “but then after...
...over Pakistan's tribal areas to collect intelligence and fire at select targets. Only when attacks have claimed large-scale civilian casualties, as in the abortive 2006 attempt to kill al-Qaeda No.2 Ayman al-Zawahiri, have the Pakistani authorities bothered to go through the more advanced motions of protest...