Word: strike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faculty members of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) strike within the next month, the administration has threatened to fire them and hire new instructors, Derek Bradford, associate professor of Architecture and chairman of the faculty negotiating team, said yesterday...
...statement released yesterday, the RISD administration said, "While we feel there is little likelihood of a strike at this time, we recognize that the Faculty Association has formed a strike committee. Therefore, it is only prudent to make provisions for continuing instruction to students in the unfortunate event of a strike...
Bernard M. Singleton, assistant executive secretary of the National Education Association, the faculty union, said he "could see a strike perhaps within a month...
...stroke of irony that he would, no doubt, have relished, Ben Sonnenberg died last September, at age 77, during the New York newspaper strike. Thus he had no obituaries of any size, and his passing, though mourned by friends, made little news. But then, Sonnenberg's profession was to be the midwife of stories, not their subject. He was one of the first modern public relations men. Indeed he had been at the game so long-"fashioning," as he once put it, "large pedestals for small statues"-that many people thought he had invented the p.r. business...
...novels offer a character who grows convincingly from page to page. Dubin's Lives presents not only the hero but the women around him. Kitty, Fanny, Dubin's daughter Maud all pull away from their orbits around Dubin and strike out in directions he cannot predict. Without uttering a single polemic, Malamud builds one of the sharpest images of women's liberation in contemporary fiction...