Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Crime is down, school scores are up and there is no baseball strike. We're no longer bombing the Serbs to make them quit killing the Kosovars, our first ever "humanitarian war." Latrell Sprewell has made a comeback, and no one in boxing has bitten anyone else's ear off lately. Henry Kissinger was not named Humanitarian of the Year this year. True, the President was caught diddling an intern at the White House, but all that happened was it cost Newt Gingrich his job. You think any other country could come up with a scenario like that? Could Canada...
...disease. He is eager to prepare the succession of his son Bashar, 34, a mild-mannered, British-trained ophthalmologist who emerged as heir apparent only after his elder brother Basil died in a 1994 car crash. "Assad has more a sense of urgency now because he would like to strike the deal himself," says Bassma Kodmani-Darwish, an analyst at the Ford Foundation in Cairo. "He would rather go as the man who brought the Golan back...
...ever feel jealous, I ask, when another miner makes the big strike? "Ah, no, Bob, it'd be pointless. You'd spend your whole life being jealous. I feel glad, actually. It keeps you believing that it could happen to you tomorrow. And if you go for six months without a strike, you've got to believe that. Otherwise you'd go crazy...
...necessary--or ethical. "We're in a group that makes in the top 1% in income, and I'm not sure we need that kind of protection," argues Fred Campbell, a San Antonio, Texas, internist. Even more troubling is the image of doctors jeopardizing their patients by going on strike. On those grounds, Albert Yellin, a Los Angeles vascular surgeon, opposed the unionization last month of 800 Los Angeles County physicians. "Using our patients as hostages to gain things within our own self-interest is anathema to our whole mission," he says...
...quell worries like this, the A.M.A. has pre-emptively renounced its right to strike. It is even shying away from using the word union, preferring the squishier "national negotiating organization." The group says it will rely on tamer job actions like "slowing a bit on completing paperwork" required by HMOs. Yet representatives of other doctors' unions, such as the Union of American Physicians and Dentists, claim the A.M.A. is making a mistake by voluntarily giving up its most important bargaining tool...