Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...through his Paris-based holding company, Cerus, prompted hurrahs in Italy's financial community. "It was a brilliant operation, a theatrical coup," said Fiat Chairman Giovanni Agnelli, and Italian newspapers bannered triumphant headlines like DE BENEDETTI, KING OF BELGIUM. But the cross-border bid stirred far noisier wails of protest across Belgium. "Financial piracy!" declared La Generale's chief, Rene Lamy. GENERALE UNDER THE ITALIAN BOOT, screamed a headline...
Despite the repression, morale in Gaza remains high. In one crowded home in the huge Jabalia camp, Zainab, a widow of 50, and her five children said they were determined to keep up the protest despite the Israeli crackdown. Her son Jawad, 17, has already served several jail terms for his anti-Israeli activities, and is willing to risk more. "Let it be known to the Israelis that we are strong," Jawad told a visitor. "We are capable of confronting them on all fields. We are not going to run away as the Egyptian army did in 1967." Asked what...
...suit, alleging a violation of their First Amendment right to free expression. They had some reason to suppose that the courts might agree. In its landmark 1969 Tinker decision, the Supreme Court held that a school acted unconstitutionally when it suspended students for wearing black armbands to class in protest against the Viet Nam War. Schools may curtail those rights, the court ruled, only when the student expression substantially disrupts schoolwork or discipline, or invades the rights of others...
...faculty meeting of the College of Communication, Silber said that Bernard S. Redmont, who resigned as dean of the college in the summer of 1986, had "fostered and continued to foster the myth" that he had stepped down to protest the ethics of the Afghan Media Project...
Redmont spearheaded the opposition to the project, and gained national media attention when he resigned, a move which was viewed as a protest against the project...