Word: strike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Growing older, I have realized that the fine print is more important, more powerful than ritual or atmospherics. Still half in, half out of the church, wistfully faithful, I find myself puzzling over those contractual details. The church's ideals of family, for example, strike me as, by turns, heroic, profound or quaint...
...idea of a Humanities Quad was pure 1960s. It was about getting together, loving, sharing and maybe, just maybe, smoking a little grass. It was together, not apart. It was Woodstock I, not Whitewater. It was the 1969 World Series, not the baseball strike. It was the Peace Corps, not a recruiting meeting for Goldman Sachs. It was John and Yoko, not Woody and Soon...
...Harvard Club's Board of Managers, like the employees and club members, wants the strike settled sooner than later. What we all need is an agreement that's fair to employees and to the club --Charlotte P. Armstrong '49, L'53 Vice President, Harvard Club of New York City
...Speaking of soccer, one reason you'll never hear of a full-blown players' strike in the "Simplest Game" is a fact which often escapes the attention of the average American sports fan: there is more than one "top" league. We talk about baseball players going to Japan for more money, or basketball players to Italy...but that's how it works all the time in soccer...
Tomorrow's scheduled start of the hockey season was delayed today by the National Hockey League. Despite an offer extended by players yesterday not to strike and to play without a collective-bargaining agreement, N.H.L. commissioner Gary Bettman decided a contract was necessary. Both sides will return to the negotiating table, but players will not take to the ice in the interim. If a deal is struck in the next two weeks, officials say that regular season games can be made...