Word: strike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...groggy SDS members marched over to Low Library, where they broke into the office of Columbia's president.. Soon, members of the original group, as well as other students, had spread out to several other classroom buildings and set up "Strike Central" in Ferris Booth Hall, the student union...
...next morning, students called for the faculty to strike. Although the faculty did not officially sanction student demands, enough avoided campus to effectively shut down the university for three weeks...
...Strike Zone: Die Hard in Yankee Stadium...
...three years into the recovery and inflation is still declining," says Ross DeVol, an economist with the WEFA Group economic consulting firm. "That is unprecedented in the postwar period." Declares Ed Yardeni, chief economist for the C.J. Lawrence investment firm: "By launching what it calls a pre-emptive strike against inflation, all the Fed has done is perpetrate a meltdown in the stock and bond market and raise the serious risk of dramatically slowing the economy...
...budget item or entrenched interest group was spared Rendell's whittling, including the municipal unions. After a failed strike, the members accepted a 30-month pay freeze, cuts in health benefits and a reduction in time off that saved the city an estimated $93 million a year. An additional $32 million has been pared by allowing 21 private companies to run everything from the maintenance of the Philadelphia Nursing Home to janitorial services at city hall...