Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...panels have ruled that the banana quota system is a restraint of trade, but that hasn't stopped the friends of the quotas. They have been working frantically behind the scenes, offering South American countries various financial inducements to get them to switch positions. Meanwhile, Chiquita filed a formal protest against the European quotas in conjunction with the U.S. banana producers in Hawaii, even though the banana output in Hawaii doesn't amount to a hill of peels. The French threatened to scuttle the public-works plank of the GATT agreement unless Germany accepted the banana plank. The Germans refused...
...plan: a test for fecal material to take place after the chickens had passed through the chill tank. But USDA officials rejected this idea because the visible evidence of contamination would have been washed off. At the meeting, industry representatives grew angry and left the impression that they would protest -- which they may indeed have done. Several hours after that session, Tyson's lobbyist, Jack Williams, met with Espy in the Secretary's office, sources told TIME. A Tyson spokesman insists the zero- tolerance proposal was not discussed, but a USDA participant in the earlier session was later told...
...this case, Walsh's protest was short-lived. Hardly had he taken the sex toys home, when Cambridge City Manager Robert W. Healy called him up to retrieve them. Within a matter of hours, the dildos and the penis were back on display...
...accord for Mideast peace, has reportedly tied the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in knots. Sources close to the deliberations told the Oslo paper that former Norwegian government minister Kaare Kristiansen, one of five Peace Prize Committee members and a longtime Israel supporter, has vowed to step down in protest because he still considers Arafat a terrorist. TIME Copenhagen reporter Julian Isherwood says the turmoil has prompted the committee to schedule an emergency meeting as soon as tomorrow to work out a compromise...
...early '70s. Defining itself against the Harlem Renaissance and deeply rooted in black cultural nationalism, the Black Arts writers imagined themselves as the artistic wing of the Black Power movement. Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal and Sonia Sanchez viewed black art as a matter less of aesthetics than of protest; its function was to serve the political liberation of black people from white racism. Erected on a shifting foundation of revolutionary politics, this "renaissance" was the most short-lived of all. By 1975, with the Black Arts Movement dead, black culture seemed to be undergoing a profound identity crisis...