Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forum for contra leader Adolfo Calero. The organization reserved 300 of the 350 available seats for conservative students--the rest going to the press and, oh yes, the public. Just 20 members of La Alianza, the Latin American Law School group, were allowed inside to hold signs in protest...
This plant sparked protest in Boston's Mission Hill district over the past decade because its smoke was considered a health hazard. State estimates predict that four more people will die of lung cancer over the next 40 years because of nitrogen dioxide pollution belched from the plant...
Surprise number one: The Engineers sent over a squad which included 13 graduate students. That violated New England Rugby Football Union (NERFU) rules, which prohibits graduate students from competing on an undergraduate squad, causing Harvard to play the game under protest...
...staged a 5000-person rally in front of the Statehouse last week to protest the cap and give hospital employees an opportunity to meet with legislators...
...runways at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International Airport were unusually congested last week -- but this time by people. Several hundred aircraft workers gathered to protest a Cabinet decision to scrap the Lavi jet fighter. After months of impassioned debate, the final ballot was close: 12 to 11, with one abstention. Most Labor Party members voted against the project, while most Likud members were for it. After the vote Likud's Minister Without Portfolio Moshe Arens angrily quit the Cabinet...