Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Oratory and Opera. Building on that foundation, Republicans hoped to make Miami Beach the prelude for even bigger victories. Fittingly, the man they selected to strike the theme for the convention by delivering its keynote speech was Washington's Dan Evans. The age of television demands a keynoter who is young, attractive and vigorous. Evans is the prototype of a class of pragmatic, nondoctrinaire, problem-solving Republicans who came to the forefront after the 1964 debacle. Before television, keynote speeches were all too often incredible and interminable. Historian Mark Sullivan once called them "a combination of oratory, grand opera...
...most common causes of irreparable, irreversible liver damage is a congenital abnormality of the bile ducts called biliary atresia, which behaves like a malignancy and usually proves fatal within 18 months of birth. The other cause is cancer itself, which may strike...
...agents of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, the largest after Prudential, went on strike for higher commissions and bigger retirement and pension funds. At one point, a settlement seemed near. But that was before the strikers began to toss bricks through windows of Metropolitan's headquarters in Manhattan, throw knives around the cafeteria and generally terrorize nonunion agents...
Though the strikers and management had worked out most of the fine print for a new contract by week's end, policyholders were still mailing in their premiums, and the agents, who have no strike fund, were still living off past commissions. In many cases, this was no particular hardship, since a hard working and fortunate agent can make $100,000 a year...
...union representing about 600 Harvard employees last night rejected a contract which its officials had negotiated with the University, and empowered the officials to call a strike if their loosely defined demands...