Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company said it was paying $100 million for 20% of the hot, new Manhattan investment firm started six months ago by Bruce Wasserstein and Joseph Perella, the Wall Street wizards who built First Boston's merger department into one of the best in the business and then left to strike out on their...
...what does this say about the Black voter? Instead of comparing Dukakis and Bush to each other, Blacks have been blind followers of Jesse Jackson. While many of Jackson's delegates did not agree with his anti-nuclear no-first strike proposal to the Democratic Platform, they still supported it because it was Jackson's idea. Are these people supporting Jackson or his issues...
...World Apart is refreshingly different because it resists, for the most part, the impulse to strike out what might be better left unsaid (although it does gloss over the Firsts' communist sympathies). Rather, it aims at realism, insofar as it doesn't omit family fights, broken friendships or even Diana's attempted suicide. And it succeeds because it is not a blanket statement about injustice and racism; it is about the lives of its characters. It is as much, if not more, about the relationship between mother and child than about the conflict between liberal journalist and apartheid-supporting police...
...estranged wife (Bonnie Bedelia) in hopes of a reconciliation. Because the bash is taking place on a high floor of a high- rise, the revelers are easily sealed off from outside aid by an invading terrorist gang. The thugs miss McClane, who is in the john when they strike, so he is free to convert himself into a loose cannon, rolling through the mostly deserted building, eliminating the gang...
Since foreign journalists are forbidden to travel to the area, they must rely on telephone interviews with Armenian activists. "Nearly the whole country is on strike," a musician in Yerevan told TIME Moscow Correspondent Ann Blackman. "Most plants are shut, including one that supplies rubber for much of the country. Movie theaters and concert halls are closed. We're in a state of mourning." He reported that militiamen accompany bus drivers in case local citizens set up blockades and that doctors and telephone operators stop work for one minute each hour to demonstrate their sympathy...