Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...base, Glazer's focus on the Black experience rightly recalls more than 370 years of American history in which the brunt of racist hate and violence fell upon Black Americans. Bigotry and economic, cultural and social segregation still strike Blacks and Black communities with arguably the greatest severity of any of the American minorities; there can be no contesting that Black-white equality belongs at the top of priorities for all citizens...
...goad to some, it was lack of a historical memory that helped spur on others. The generation of Czechoslovaks now coming of age did not experience the trauma of the invasion -- and the fear of provoking a new crackdown. Said Martin Mejstrik, a leader of the university strike: "Our parents are still frightened. We are also frightened sometimes, but we have less to lose...
...achieve that goal but was strong enough to cause havoc. Before the assassination, thousands of his mostly youthful supporters crowded into the courtyard of his bombed-out palace, offering Nazi-style salutes and chanting "We sacrifice our souls and blood to you, O General," while riots and a general strike took place in the territory Aoun controls. He threatened revenge against Deputies who helped negotiate the peace plan, and seven had their houses or offices bombed. "I cannot protect them from subversive elements," said Aoun, who, to avoid Moawad's fate, rarely leaves his bunker...
...party animal and class president -- decided to become a professional protester. His conversion to the antiwar movement wasn't triggered by emotionalism or peer pressure. He immersed himself in the history of Viet Nam and emerged convinced that America's leaders were dangerously ignorant about Southeast Asia. Did it strike him as odd that he claimed to be better informed than the President? "Yeah," says Rifkin, "I always thought that was weird." Then as now he rarely doubted that he was right...
...estimated 1,000 of 1,200 basic consumer products are in short supply. When Siberian coal miners went on strike last July, one of their most impassioned demands was for soap...