Word: protested
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Boris Yeltsin knows that miners' strikes in 1989 and 1991 loosened Mikhail Gorbachev's grip on the presidency. So when half a million miners staged a one-day walkout last week to protest nonpayment of wages, Yeltsin scrambled to pledge $500 million for the industry...
...recent years, the Law School has been criticized for its low number of women faculty. The issue sparked wide-spread student protest in 1992 and 1993. However, Warren's appointment comes as the latest in a series of recent women faculty hires...
City Councillor Timothy J. Toomey said a constituent told him that he had called the cable company to protest a lack of service during the snowstorm February 4, but that no one answered the phone at the company...
Last week Smithsonian secretary Michael Heyman did exactly that. No doubt alarmed by the fact that 81 Congressmen had written in protest and that hearings were being planned on this exhibit and perhaps other trash-America exhibits at Smithsonian museums, he announced that Air and Space would display the Enola Gay with only a simple explanation of its mission and a video memoir of the crew...
...Thursday summit between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat. But despite a personal appeal from President Clinton, Israel refused to end at once a 23-day closure of the Gaza border that aims to contain terrorists. Hundreds of Palestinians marched through Gaza City today in protest, saying the travel ban has kept them from their jobs in Israel and has paralyzed the local economy. An angry Arafat canceled an appearance, though, after turnout fell short of expectations...