Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BOSTON--Thirteen picketers were arrested after blocking entrances to a NYNEX Corp. building and customers began to reach tape recordings instead of operators yesterday as the 62,000-worker strike against the company headed into its third...
...They still have the money coming in and we don't," said Al Brown, picket captain at a NYNEX special service center in Boston's Dorchester section. But the union vowed to stay on strike for as long as necessary...
There was apparently no movement on the issues that prompted the strike--chiefly a NYNEX plan to require workers to begin contributing to their health insurance costs--and the two sides were unable to agree on a negotiating format...
Maybe Parenthood should have toughed out more of its stories or left a couple of them dangling ambiguously. And the baby boomlet at the end, to which all branches of the family contribute, may strike viewers as a little too resounding a triumph of hope over experience. It can be argued, however, that a picture that confronts the ordinary bedevilments of middle-class life as honorably as this one does has earned the right to a little happiness. Besides, it's always better to change a diaper than to curse the darkness...
...ridiculously simple: take a long pole ; with a line, attach a fake bug and toss it at some unsuspecting fish. But the disciplines involved in this seemingly simple act take years to master. Novices often quit in disgust or spend hours on the river, pleading to heaven for the strike of just one trout. Eventually, with practice, the casts begin to land right, without a splash, and then one day a trout rises to examine the offering -- and strikes...