Word: strike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Salinas staged a hunger strike this monthuntil the government cleared him of any wrongdoingin the 1994 assassination of former presidentialcandidate Luis Donaldo Colosio...
...owing to his trafficking in gloom (any impulse toward optimism being, of course, evidence of callowness). But even his darkest interludes are subtle and variegated. There's a vivid moment in one of his stories when an awestruck boy beholds a flash of lightning: "someone seemed to strike a match in the sky." Something lovely is always dancing beyond Chekhov's horizon, toward which his characters gaze with palpable yearning...
...Pensacola, Florida, abortion clinic; then the article was yanked, and Hirsh was fired several months later. The uproar caught Regent Law School dean J. Nelson Happy by surprise: "If the student editors decided to publish this, I didn't feel it was appropriate to stop them. It didn't strike me as something inherently mischievous. Then I got a call from the New York Times...
...Boston. Salinas' reputation has plummeted at home and abroad since his older brother, Raul, was arrested two weeks ago for allegedly conspiring to kill a top Mexican official. Since then, the ex-president has taken much of the blame for the collapse of Mexico's economy. A hunger strike staged to demand that his name be cleared has done little to enhance his standing. Salinas and his family reportedly flew to New York Saturday after his hand-picked successor, President Ernesto Zedillo, asked him to leave the country. The White House today said it had no role in his departure...
Prosecutor Marcia Clark launched a pre-emptive strike to fend off the anticipated defense assault on LAPD Detective Mark Fuhrman, who took the stand today. Simpson's lawyers are expected tosuggest that the detective is a racistwho planted a bloody glove in O.J.'s backyard in order to frame Simpson for murdering his white ex-wife and her friend. Today Clark asked Fuhrman about Kathleen Bell, who claimed in a letter to Simpson's lawyers that she once heard Fuhrman make racist remarks. Fuhrman denied ever meeting Bell. The detective also recalled responding to a 1985 domestic dispute call...