Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result of his protest, Dershowitz was brought before MIT's Committee on Discipline (COD), MIT's disciplinary body, this fall...
...England was in a period of high unemployment at the time. The skinheads were predominately a working class group whose behavior was a kind of protest," Miller says...
...that carries ministerial rank. While that represents a demotion, Kremlin watchers could not recall any previous Soviet official's being vilified and sacked from a top job, then re-emerging so quickly in another high post. Yeltsin's firing was also unusual in that it provoked some rare public protest, including a demonstration by supporters in Moscow's 1905 Square that was broken up by police...
...prices, panicky shoppers snapped up sugar, flour and cooking oil by the crateload, quickly clearing grocery-store shelves. Decorum went next. Chanting "Down with prices!," 5,000 striking steelworkers hurled tin cans and hunks of bread at officials in the southern city of Skopje in the first organized labor protest to hit Yugoslavia since it became a Communist country, in 1945. Cowed officials promptly doubled some wages. In a no less startling outburst, the press and even some Communist leaders intensified calls for the resignation of Prime Minister Branko Mikulic, 59. Amid the turmoil, the devalued Yugoslav dinar plunged nearly...
...plan that leaders of the republics flatly rejected last month, the measures froze prices of some food staples but increased others by up to 70%. The goal: to bring prices into line with costs of production. Whatever the economic merit of the moves, they provoked a fire storm of protest and criticism...