Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Paul Z. Lanni, financial officer for the union, said yesterday that his group sympathasizes with the ten striking unions and hopes to "make MIT put pressure on EG&G to negotiate with the people who are out on strike because MIT has a lot of weight with...
...spokesman for EG&G's Nevada subsidiary denied that either MIT or the parent company were involved in the labor dispute. "EG&G is not involved with this strike, it is entirely REECO's affair, we are dealing with this completely ourselves," said Steve Leon, public information officer for REECO...
...Biden: I will strike corns but Ukrainians are not Slavs or, as the Latins used to say, vice versa. Anyhow, the chair now recognizes the distinguished Senator from Utah...
...with his fingernails, while at the same time firing off his hand gun at random. The noise attracts a curious Kennnedy School dean, who happens to be followed by two rich Texans trying to gain prestige by disbursing cash. The four confront one another and, after a heated argument, strike a deal to set up a chain of "Harvard Grad School Diploma Shacks--instant while-u-wait" services in shopping malls throughout the country. Then they go off to have lunch. After they leave, a studious Harvard senior wanders in and fires off the pistol once more...
Nowhere did the chaos of Black Monday strike harder than in the tiny Asian entrepot. When the Hang Seng index dived 11% within hours on that day, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange simply vaporized, and Exchange Chairman Ronald Li closed it down for four days. When trading reopened last Monday, the value of shares plummeted an additional 33%, to about $50 billion, wiping out a year's gains. "This is not a stock market," said a furious Hong Kong local moneyman. "This is a poorly run casino...