Word: strike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proceeded to bottle up Colgate and Harvard took over at its own 28 with under a minute left in the half. Two running plays for five-yards brought the clock down to :07. Brown conferred with Restic and on third down he faded back and threw a 40-yard strike to Horner, who was pushed out on the 25-yardline with one second left in the half...
...developed. B.R.A.C. Chief Fred Kroll refused to heed Carter's order until he got a court-backed guarantee that no reprisals would be taken against union members by the railroads. Then a U.S. district court in Washington postponed a decision on a rail industry call for a no-strike injunction against the union; the court questioned whether the Railway Act empowers the White House to halt a strike already in progress...
Finally, acting on a request from the Justice Department, the court at week's end issued an order restraining the union from striking for ten days and barring the roads from taking retaliatory action against any participants in the walkout. At the end of ten days both sides will again appear before the court to discuss a preliminary injunction that would forbid the union from striking for the remainder of the 60-day cooling-off time. Citing "a victory against tremendous odds," Kroll jubilantly called off the B.R.A.C. pickets; trains across the country began to move again...
...appointed a fact-finding panel of three arbitrators to recommend terms of a settlement within 30 days. After that the Government will seek to prod both sides into an accord. If at the end of 60 days no agreement is reached, the union would be free to resume its strike. Under such circumstances, past Presidents have sought emergency legislation to avert another walkout. In 1971, for example, Congress imposed a settlement after a strike by railroad signalmen...
White ties, tails-even a few evening gowns. The members of Washington's National Symphony Orchestra do things in style, and marching on the picket line is no exception. The high note of the N.S.O.'s strike, which began four days before the opening night of the season, came when the orchestra's conductor, Mstislav Rostropovich, joined the marchers in an unusual show of support. When police came by and asked the strikers to move away from the entrance to the Kennedy Center, Slava, exiled from the U.S.S.R., kept a civil tongue in his cheek...