Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...propose delaying a 4.3% military pay raise and killing both a Trident nuclear missile-firing submarine and two Los Angeles-class attack submarines, all congressional favorites. Carlucci coldly ordered the Navy to drop that ploy and instead mothball 16 aging frigates. Secretary of the Navy James Webb resigned in protest...
...office workers can worry about the health hazards of poor air circulation, imagine how coal miners feel about it. When dust and methane gas accumulate in underground mines, the hazards range from explosions to lung disease. That is why thousands of miners turned out at hearings last week to protest proposed changes in federal rules that they believe would relax their fresh-air safeguards. Among the revisions being considered by the Government's Mine Safety and Health Administration: allowing methane levels in some mines to be monitored by electronic devices instead of human inspectors...
Even so, Brown's Democrats lost three seats in 1986, reducing them to a majority of 44 to 36. Since then, a handful of moderate-to-conservati ve Democrats dubbed the "Gang of Five" have voted with Republicans to pass bills over Brown's protest, providing capital punishment for child murderers, AIDS tests for prostitutes and wiretaps for suspected drug dealers. The gang considers Brown too autocratic and too liberal, but has been unable to unseat him because he maintains support from key Republicans...
...hardly escaped criticism. Labor and education leaders alike call him unapproachable. He has irritated teachers by suggesting that they face periodic competency reviews and surrender their system of lifelong tenure. Proposed cuts of $50 million in the state's much admired charity hospital system have caused anxiety and protest in some localities...
...reason many activists abandon large-scale protests is that they often do not work, he says. He cites the University Hall takeover in 1969 as an example of a protest that "didn't achieve anything," although sometimes aggressive tactics are needed to make people aware of the issues, he adds...