Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hugo, the most powerful storm to strike the Caribbean this decade, left as many as 50,000 people homeless in Puerto Rico, and some observers have estimated property damage in the hundreds of millions of dollars...
...been battling his workers, confirmed last week that he may sell part or all of Continental Airlines to raise badly needed cash. Texas Air borrowed heavily for the 1986 purchase of Continental's sister carrier, Eastern Air Lines, which is mired in bankruptcy proceedings and a seven-month- long strike by its mechanics...
Last month 35,000 to 40,000 Russians went on strike to protest those laws. Though the walkouts have been suspended, strike leaders still meet three times a week to prepare for a possible resumption. "The strikes are a strong influence on the government to revise the laws," said factory worker Vladimir Shorikin. Igor Shepelevich, director of a computer-chip plant, explained that new strikes could pretty well close down Estonia. "The republic's railroads, airports, seaports and power systems are all run by Russians," he pointed out. In Moldavia recent strikes by Russians left tomatoes rotting in fields...
Meteorologist Jesse Moore at the NationalHurricane Center said it was too early to tellwhether Hugo would strike the U.S. mainland. Hesaid the storm was expected to be offsouth-eastern Bahamas by tomorrow and "after that,it's anybody's guess...
Similarly, the unions have often called large one- or two-day "stayaways" but have not managed to organize the kind of prolonged general strike that could bring the economy to a halt. Many South African businessmen say privately that the most effective economic sanction of all would be for the millions of black workers simply to stay at home until the government agrees to negotiate. This does not happen, says a diplomat in Pretoria, because "the primary concern of most blacks in South Africa is money. The secondary concern is possible political gain in the future. There is no revolution...