Word: strike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These ideas strike local skeptics as overly ambitious and doomed to fail. "Just wait until the mosquitoes start bitin', and see how many tourists you get," scoffs Wyly. Emmanuel Osagie, the Southern University economist who drew up the proposal, believes that such objections are beside the point. "I don't think that in an area like this you can raise people's expectations too high," he says. "We know that the empowerment zone won't solve all our problems, but it can be a start. The problem here is to get people to believe that things can really get better...
Nigerians Strike Against Junta...
...million-member National Labor Congress joined oil workers in Nigeria for two days in their month-old strike to try to topple the country's military government. Five people died in the unrest, including two marchers shot when police fired on a peaceful crowd...
...Strike Looms Closer...
Failure by baseball owners to make a $7.8 million payment to the players' pension fund heightened tension between labor and management as baseball's Aug. 12 strike date neared...