Word: strike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...month-old strike has successfully killed what two World Wars, the Vietnam War, and the Great Depression couldn't kill: the World Series...
...daily newspapers were smaller and came out weekly." After successful careers in advertising and on Wall Street, he does consulting work for Catch-22's amoral entrepreneur, Milo Minderbinder. Milo, no surprise, now owns a conglomerate that is trying to sell a "Sub-Supersonic Invisible and Noiseless Defensive Second-Strike Offensive Attack Bomber," code-name Shhhhh!, to the U.S. government. That entity has been left, thanks to the President's resignation, in the hands of a dim Vice President from Indiana who wants to be sworn in by the Chief Justice of the U.S., but this cannot be done because...
...their time, comfort and sometimes income. It's not the jurors who are the problem, says Adler, but the ordeal they are subjected to. First, the most competent citizens are permitted to escape the jury pool. The pool is whittled down further by peremptory challenges, which allow lawyers to strike a potential juror from the panel without giving reasons. The lawyers have reasons, of course, often based on stereotypes of race, gender, age or income that lead them to believe a particular candidate will disfavor their client. Then the trial begins, when jurors face complicated testimony and evidence that judges...
Members of a House judiciary subcommittee struck fear into the hearts of major league baseball owners when the lawmakers said they might consider stripping the sport's antitrust exemption if players and owners do not soon settle their strike...
...soldiers raided the Port-au-Prince headquarters of the hated Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haitia (FRAPH), and several other locations, in the most dramatic strike yet against the ruling junta's recalcitrant militiamen. The move came hours after pro-junta Haitians in the southwestern town of Les Cayes shot and wounded a U.S. Special Forces soldier. After the raid -- in which about 100 U.S. Army personnel detained at least 10 armed Haitians, including a woman who packed a pistol in her bra -- a crowd of club-wielding pro-democracy demonstrators surged into the compound, trashing and smashing...