Word: strike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...novel Niezi, translated into English in 1990 as Crystal Boys and acclaimed by the producers as "the first modern Chinese gay novel." An original creation of Weinstein and Yee, the play very clearly comes from a longer prose work. Weinstein and Yee seem to have tried to strike a balance between dramatizing character development and bringing concrete action to the stage, but the latter often works better than the former. Blocks of monologue, rather than quick banter or fast-moving action, mark the development of the story. One character frequently delivers a revelation or reminiscence to another in a single...
Cash, a member of the Board of the Knight-Ridder Corporation, has been called to testify on a strike involving two Detroit newspapers, which are Knight-Ridder subsidiaries, according to Jeff Feuer, the Cambridge lawyer who is representing the labor union...
...attempt to speed resolution of the strike, workers have been trying to contact members of the Knight-Ridder board. In February, several union members were arrested on the property of board member Thomas Phillips, former CEO of the Raytheon Corporation and resident of Weston, Mass...
...more than a year, workers at the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News have been on strike, demanding better wages and a stop to the consolidation of several Detroit papers...
According to PSLM members Daniel R. Morgan '99 and Daniel M. Hennefeld '99, the students are working conjunction with leaders of the Detroit labor union organizing the strike...