Word: strike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...itself four games behind the Red Rolfe Division-leading Bulldogs (11-10, 7-3), but it also lost captain Mike Giardi in the first game and starting pitcher junior Scott Davidson in the nightcap. The home-plate umpire ejected Giardi from the first game after a called third strike in the top of the third inning with the score tied...
...least four times with Clinton last year and has so far held two closed-door meetings with the President in 1994. On Jan. 21, for instance, Greenspan indicated to Clinton and his top advisers that the Fed was planning a small increase in interest rates as a pre-emptive strike against inflation. While Clinton expressed an understanding of Greenspan's position, he said he hoped that raising short-term rates would not jack up long-term rates as well -- and that proved to be exactly what happened. A second Clinton-Greenspan meeting on March 18 embarrassed both sides when...
...this bodes well. But the stock market in the short term doesn't care about any of that. It cares mainly about interest rates. You can argue that with the economy finally in gear, commodity prices and labor costs will begin to edge up. (Could the Teamsters strike be a straw in the wind?) Then again, you can argue that with enormous global capacity, inflation (and thus interest rates) will stay in check...
...tobacco industry is becoming more aggressive on the political front as well. In California, for example, where more than half the nation's estimated 600 local antismoking ordinances have been enacted, the tobacco industry is trying a pre-emptive strike. According to antismoking activists in the state, cigarette companies are behind a "citizens' group" supporting an initiative that would institute statewide restrictions against smoking. The catch is that the measure is milder than the many local ordinances it would override...
...Teamster Strike...