Word: strike
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...disappointed to read of the Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Club's intention to drop "Radcliffe" from its title ("GOP Club May Strike 'Radcliffe' From Name, news story, Oct. 27, 1994). The article indicated that the change, according to some students, is intended to slight Radcliffe, or women undergraduates' role in the Club...
Harvard Law School graduate Jennifer K. Harbury broke off her 31-day hunger strike last Friday after the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala City acknowledged that her husband, guerrilla leader Enfrain "Everado" Velasquez, was captured alive in 1992 by the Guatemalan military...
Harbury ended her strike, during which she maintained a vigil outside the Guatemalan presidential palace in Guatemala City, with a meal consisting entirely of fruit juice. Her strike was intended to pressure officials into providing a more complete account of her husband's whereabouts...
Both series ended in quick-strike Yale touchdowns, and those proved the difference in this 111th playing of The Game...
Baseball owners put a new, 102-page offer on the table during four hours of negotiations with players yesterday: an updated version of their old salary cap proposal (which led to the strike) and an alternative plan to "tax" any team whose payroll rises above the league average. The two sides began a new meeting today, but players' representatives were already grumbling. "The numbers that they have plugged into this system will not fly," union attorney Gene Orza said. "The question is whether this tax system can survive." The players are expected to make a counteroffer next week.Post your opinion...