Word: strike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crusaders' first tally blew in off a corner kick. Their second strike came off a direct kick from 30 yards out, as the ball made a wind-aided arc over the outstretched hand of freshman goalie Dana Krein and inside the crossbar...
Hmmm. How about the Harry Sinden theory, you know, "Let's see if you let the Bruins players practice down at Bright during an NHLPA strike ever again...
...gentlemen who owned the fishing boats on Richmond Island, off the coast of Maine, imposed the first known salary cap. In their wisdom, they withheld all the wages of their crews for an entire year, a hardball move if ever there was one. Not surprisingly, the fishermen went on strike. Since then there have been tens of thousands of strikes that have helped shape labor law and define the compact between worker and boss. Many strikes have been bitter. Some have been brutal: 18 steelworkers were killed during a 3 1/2-month strike...
...strike in the past 358 years, not one, can claim to be as ludicrous as the current work stoppages bedeviling professional sports. In baseball and hockey, multimillionaire owners have been pleading impending poverty. On the other side, players, some of whom are also multimillionaires, stamp their size 13s and demand a bigger share of the pie. It's the rich vs. the megarich in a spectacle almost as distasteful to watch as the intramurals among the wackos of the House of Windsor. If there are principles involved, and both sides swear there are, they do not make sense to anyone...
...Rialto" becomes fodder for a pair of gossip reporters on a happy-talk TV newscast. Shylock's trial is presided over by a mumbling, superannuated judge who could have stepped right out of Court TV. With a few exceptions -- Elaine Tse's overwrought Portia, for instance -- the actors strike a nice balance between Shakespeare's poetry and Sellars' stunt driving. For the rest of us, it's a wild ride...