Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talks. He walks. He does push-ups. He sweats. And he is almost inhumanly brave. Well, strike the almost. Manny is a robot, though with a body temperature of 98.6 0 F and a chest that heaves with each "breath," he is astonishingly lifelike. Come October, he will wade into clouds of nerve gas, which his owner, the U.S. Army, would never dare subject a real soldier to. Manny's mission, at the Army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, will be to test protective clothing -- for example, to determine whether walking, bending or sweating might cause the clothing...
...week-old strike by 1,900 mine workers against Pittston Coal in Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky began as a model of genteel labor relations, with strikers staging peaceful sit-ins and picketing politely. But last week the increasingly bitter standoff, which has grown to include more than 37,000 wildcat strikers throughout coal country, turned into an old- fashioned, ugly war. A car bomb exploded at a Virginia coal company, and strikers hurled rocks at coal-carrying trucks near the entrance to Sydney Coal in Kentucky...
...reduction of the Afrikaaner diaspora by about one-half. As Riggs tells Murtaugh, "We're back! We're bad! You're black! I'm mad!" Mad to the max. Riggs may not know how to spell apartheid, but he knows whom he hates. He even knows how to strike a blow for American property values. When the Boers perforate his beachside shack, Riggs finds appropriate recourse. He kills their house...
...usually] negotiate a second contract withthe Marriott people. They have indicated to methat they may not accept the Harvard contract,"Bozzotto said. "But we are going to let theBusiness School people know that there is notgoing to be a second class of dining hall workershere. We will strike if we have...
...silent about an amendment, unsure that a President should meddle in constitutional law. Over the weekend, however, he took the national pulse via talk shows, and on Monday aides said he favored "legislation" to remedy the court's action. After his advisers told him that the Justices would surely strike down a new law, Bush said he wanted to codify his feelings in a constitutional amendment...