Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paraded around the square, their placards and signs bobbing up and down, proclaiming the presence of CAAC (China's civil airline), CITIC (China's largest investment company) and PICC (people's insurance company). Held aloft beside them were the ubiquitous signs inscribed sheng yuan (support the students) or HUNGER STRIKE -- NO TO DEEP-FRIED DEMOCRACY. Other signs had a distinctly American provenance. I HAVE A DREAM, said one, echoing Martin Luther King Jr. Another amended the words of Patrick Henry: GIVE ME DEMOCRACY OR GIVE ME DEATH...
...achievement almost proved short-lived. As the number of demonstrators in the square dwindled to nearly none, the students decided to employ one of civil disobedience's most sacred weapons, the hunger strike. With a large contingent of foreign press on hand for the Gorbachev visit, the decision seemed a brilliant public relations ploy. But the choice of tactics also harked back to the sensibility of a much earlier...
...Theater nuclear forces were put in Europe in the first place because Europeans didn't find it credible that the U.S. would come to their defense < with nuclear strikes if only Europe were in danger of being overrun in a conventional war. Putting the nuclear capability to sea would not only be returning toward the discredited massive-retaliation doctrine, it would also mean that most if not all of the capability would be in the hands of the U.S. and Britain, which would probably cause the continental nations to again wonder if their allies would use these weapons...
...after six months of publication in 1983.) Officials contend that the circulation drop can be explained by an increase in cover price (from 60 cents to 75 cents) and a pruning of some expensive-to-acquire subscribers. Advertising revenue, they add, was affected by last year's TV writers' strike (which delayed the networks' fall promotions) and by the elimination of a long-standing practice in which TV Guide traded ad space to local stations in exchange for commercial airtime...
Responsibility for the bombing remained uncertain. The Syrians, who control West Beirut, blamed Lebanon's Christians; the Christians accused the Syrians. But fittingly, the death of the peace-loving cleric inspired a rare display of unity: Christians and Muslims joined in a one-day nationwide strike to mourn his loss...