Word: strike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That Friday deadline for resolving the baseball strike, imposed by acting commissioner Bud Selig, is looming without any solid hope for saving the season. One possible sign of optimism: an owners' proposal that would allow high-priced bidding to continue without salary caps, but would punish the biggest-spending clubs by levying a "tax" on salaries above a preset level, according to NBC-TV. Both the players and owners hope Selig extends that do-or-die date...
...network won the baseball strike when it nabbed N.F.L. rights...
Until then, the graying Jackal sits in his underground cell, where he is barred access to television, radio and newspapers. Perhaps that is a kindness. If Carlos knew how the world is dismissing him as an overrated has-been, it might strike him as the cruelest fate...
...protesting the arrest of an opposition leader jailed for inciting riots, Tutsi youths in Bujumbura organized a general strike and set up barricades of burning tires to prevent people from going to work. Quiet returned to the city a few days later but was quickly broken when grenades were lobbed into crowds. Hutu extremist groups, newly armed with Rwandan weapons coming into Burundi from Zaire, have reorganized to mount counterattacks...
General Motors reached a tentative settlement with the striking United Auto Workers union, which had crippled the company's car and truck production. The two-day strike by 3,500 workers at a plant in Anderson, Indiana, led to the shutdown of eight other plants in the Midwest and Canada. By midday Thursday nearly 30,000 workers were sent home or told not to report for duty...