Word: strike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...responsible and circumstances about that murder is not bad policy, it's a crime," said Torricelli in demanding a formal investigation. At issue are the deaths of innkeeper Michael Devine in 1990 and Efrain Bamaca Velasquez in 1992. Bamaca's American widow, Jennifer Harbury, staged a 32-day hunger strike in Guatemala City last fall and began a fast in front of the White House 12 days...
...this was true even before the current strike--which is now in its eighth month with little hope of resolution in the near future. (It has been reported that both parties are now referring to an opening day with replacement players in the past tense...
...baseball did not hold much corn when the owners were willing to pay the players lots of money. Baseball attendance has increased throughout the 1980s and early 1990s and the game, at least in raw, unsentimental, cash-generated terms, was more popular than ever the day before this current strike. (August 18, 1994, to be exact...
...while any end to this strike would be welcome, we still should realize that the millionaire players are more in the right than the multimillionaire owners...
...began in earnest when Bernays set up shop in 1919. Now regarded as the virtual inventor of modern public relations, he promoted Enrico Caruso, Ivory soap, Henry Ford, World War I, hairnets, various projects for every President from Coolidge to Eisenhower, the color green (at the request of Lucky Strike cigarettes, concerned that women were resisting the green packaging because it clashed with their clothes) and Time Inc. Along the way, Bernays developed many now commonplace opinion-shaping strategies, including celebrity endorsements and the use of surveys and polling data, both for research and as selling points in their...