Word: skirmishes
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...United States is facing an economic border war. It has nothing to do with NAFTA, but its consequences make Ross Perot's giant sucking sound seem like nothing more that a Dust-Buster. Yet the only skirmish to receive national attention was packaged as a battle about benefits for domestic partners...
...university task force on the subject noted, and there was not enough academic substance to justify adding that one. Within days, however, 300 students -- equivalent to a tenth of the school's Chicanos and about 1% of total enrollment -- staged a protest that escalated into a window- breaking skirmish with police. Next came a hunger strike by five students and one faculty member. In June UCLA backed down, creating the Cesar Chavez Center for Interdisciplinary Instruction in Chicana (in deference to women) and Chicano Studies...
...opening skirmish in this battle could have been uglier. The Allied Pilots Association last week voted at first to see if they should join the strike. They decided later not to count the votes because the flight attendants were so successful at interrupting American's flight operations. American chairman Robert Crandall, however, made no friends among his pilots after telling industry analysts, "If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port." The turbulence is almost certain to get worse. United Airlines machinists are angry that an employee bid to buy the airline two weeks ago crashed...
Should we give up? That's the subject of another piece, and certain aspects of our Skirmish with Substances are worthwhile; such as making it a extra-special crime to sell drugs to schoolchildren. Of course, when the schoolchildren try to sell drugs to you, this may be a hint about the state of the war just as leaving the embassy in Saigon was a hint that maybe the war in Vietnam wasn't going so well...
...Skirmish over Iraq...