Word: sit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wake of sit-ins at other colleges and increased anger at the lack of progress in negotiations with the University, members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) sent a letter to University President Neil L. Rudenstine last Thursday demanding that the school adopt an anti-sweat-shop code of conduct...
Shuldiner said sit-ins have already proven effective at Duke, Georgetown, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where protesters have won concessions from the schools...
While PSLM members do not rule out sit-ins andallude to "direct action" if the University doesnot accede to their demands, they also say publicpressure will be important to a successfulcampaign...
...wake of sit-ins at other colleges and increased anger at the lack of progess in negotiations with the University, members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) sent a letter to University President Neil L. Rudenstine last Thursday demanding that the school adopt an anti-sweatshop code of conduct...
...soon became jaded. The computer was too cumbersome to throw into my briefcase and haul back and forth daily. I found it irritating to sit through the tedious Windows start-up process when my supposedly intelligent machine s-l-o-o-o-w-l-y discovered that it was no longer on a network; it was on my lap. And the two-hour battery just wasn't enough to sustain my two-way commute...