Word: strike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...newsroom one afternoon last week and delivered the brutal message: after 110 years of business, the Montreal Star (circ. 114,000) had published its last edition. The evening daily had lost $14.6 million and 50,000 readers as the result of a bitter eight-month pressmen's strike that ended in February. So the owner, F.P. Publications (the Toronto Globe and Mail and six other Canadian dailies), decided that with the balance sheet red and the broadsheet unread, the Star was better off dead...
...nation's leading city. English-speaking Montrealers began moving out in even larger numbers after René Lévesque's secession-minded Parti Québecois won control of Quebec in 1976. For a while, the Star weathered that exodus well. But during the strike, circulation at the newly lively Gazette soared to roughly what the Star's had been before the dispute. By the time the Star resumed publication, its readership had plummeted to the Gazette's old level. (The French-language La Presse [circ. 175,000] also fattened from the strike.) Said Star...
...Judge and The Assassin ends with a cinematic non sequitur; a strike breaks out in a never-before-mentioned-factory, Isabelle Huppert, last seen as the sodomized mistress of Rousseau, now appears as an aspiring diva, singing Bouvier's favorite ballad-off-key, and the entire striking mob is bathed in a Hallmark card glow. The police prepare to shoot and the screen goes black as these significant words appear: "in the year that Joseph Bouvier killed twelve children, 16,000 died in the mines of France." Both facts are terrible; is Tavernier suggesting that Bouvier should not have been...
Angel Manager Jim Fregosi then elected to walk Oriole centerfielder Al Bumbry intentionally. Baltimore's Earl Weaver pinchhit Lowenstein, and he hit a two-strike pitch into the first row of the left field stands...
Defense attorneys also filed a motion to strike the testimony of government witness Russell Savage '78, in order to "limit the scope of the government's case," and eliminate "a lot of prejudicial testimony," Owens said...