Word: strike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other people told him that we thought he should strike a note of community engagement," said Putnam...
...battle came to a head the first week in December, when Sun and Microsoft staged competing press conferences. Sun went first, announcing a long list of companies that had agreed to endorse Java, including IBM, Apple, DEC, Adobe, Silicon Graphics, Hewlett Packard, Oracle and Toshiba. Everybody expected Microsoft to strike back, reaffirming its commitment to its own Java-like Visual Basic. But at the last minute, Gates changed his mind, announcing that he too would license Java, while also promising somewhat menacingly to "extend...
...have said before that graduate students are students, and GESO has no right to unionize. But GESO only represents about 25 percent of Yale's graduate students, and, by their own count, less than half that number participated in the grade strike. Regardless, GESO was denied official status as a union by the National Labor Relations Board. Even if GESO could truly be called an employees' organization, these figures would hardly convince an industrialist that a company's workers were ready to unionize...
...about half that many hostages survived the Russian offensive. Yeltsin's government had justified the brutal assault on Wednesday by arguing that all of the hostages were already dead. Unconcerned with the contradiction, a triumphant Yeltsin vowed to take the war to Chechen leader Jokhar Dudayev: "Now we will strike a blow at those Dudayev strongholds where there is no civilian population to put an end to this war." But although Yeltsin's government has won this battle, the demolition of Pervomayskaya may still spark a larger conflict. TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich reports that many in the autonomous republic...
...They should just get busy teaching," said Gus Kallergis, 21, a senior from Akron, Ohio. "The...strike has perverted the relationship that exists between professors and their graduate student teachers...