Word: strike
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...going to run, run, run," Walsh said. "[But] the pitchers need to be more aggressive in the strike zone...
...Emotional and psychological themes are also, for the most part, given short shrift; threads are taken up for awhile that eventually go nowhere. There is a childhood friend who betrays Angelo to the Austrians, but if this is meant to be a poignant disillusionment, it's too halfhearted to strike any chords. Angelo and Pauline are each haunted by outside characters--his mother and her husband--who dominate their actions and whose unseen presences constantly stand between them. But for all his references to her, we never get to see, let alone know, Angelo's mother, and we learn very...
...Jesse Jackson voiced support over the weekend for Yale University workers who went on strike...
Members of the Local 35 union, which represents 1,100 food service, custodial and maintenance workers, returned to work last week after a four-week strike over pensions and subcontracting issues. Those issues still have not been resolved, and a contract has not been reached. Local 34, which represents clerical and technical workers, struck in February and also returned to the job after four weeks without reaching a contract...
JAMES S. KUNEN, the author of this week's disquieting cover story on resegregation, has been writing vividly about social issues since, at 19, he penned The Strawberry Statement, a best-selling account of Columbia University's 1968 student strike against the Vietnam War. A TIME contributor since last October, Kunen spent many hours visiting classrooms in Kansas City, Missouri, and Norfolk, Virginia, observing students and teachers wrestling with the problems posed by separate but unequal education. But whomever he talked to, from black nationalists to advocates of magnet schools to staunch integrationists, he discovered a common goal that transcended...