Word: strike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taken only six months for the average American baseball fan to exchange his or her guarded loyalty for lemming-hood. The protests and low attendance figures that greeted players and owners at the beginning of this strike-shortened season have been replaced by the annual rite of pennant fever...
...before we could truly enjoy discounted ticket prices, before we could take full advantage of hour-long post-game autograph sessions, our loyalty returned and the post-strike pampering of fans reversed...
...Strike or no strike, fans did not want to miss this year's most memorable moments. Putting aside any bitterness or sense of betrayal, we returned to our stadiums and television sets...
Muhammed, speaking as Farrakhan's representative, encouraged members of the black community to strike from work for the day, and to abstain from labor and commercial activity...
Interestingly, Kleiber opts for the pizzicato ending of the second movement, like his father. Although scholarship more modern than Erich Kleiber's does not seem to support this novel gesture, it remains a provocative idea. Kleiber also manages to strike a balance between Beethoven's demands for an Allegretto in this movement and the correspondence other conductors note with the Eroica's funeral march...