Word: strike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...teachers charged that the professors were using the Harvard name to imply that high-quality education was taking place during the strike. The teachers refused to identify themselves for fear of reprisals from the school district...
...time for Yeltsin to strike such a deal would have been before the invasion began on Dec. 11. Now it could be interpreted as a humiliating admission of defeat at the hands of rebel bands. And after the destruction of the past month, would the Chechens ever willingly rejoin Russia on any terms? Would Yeltsin dare settle for approximately the bargain he might have got without fighting? That would in effect mean confessing that hundreds, perhaps thousands of Russian soldiers had died, and the army had suffered a debacle for nothing. It is questionable whether Yeltsin could survive that...
...midst of a baseball strike and hockey lockout, college hoops has come through, adding an extra dose of sunshine to bleak winter days. The proverbial knight in shining armor has come wearing the maroon and white of UMass and the blue and white of UConn...
...crossed my mind that lightning might strike again," Marsh said. "If they'd have called for a penalty shot, that probably would have scared the death out of me. But if we're going to do anything to stay respectable, we've got to get tough and create breaks for ourselves, and we did that...
...backing off the deal, Gingrich showed that he was suppressing his first instinct, which is to strike back. He may be learning that the street-fighting tactics that worked so well for him as a backbencher can look unseemly when they are tried by the Speaker of the House. And the vast, multimillion-dollar network of political and charitable organizations that he has built to spread his gospel could be a difficult target to defend. All of them draw their financial support from overlapping groups of business executives and other wealthy supporters whose identities Gingrich has resisted disclosing until recently...