Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hosted terrorists, dabbled in chemical weapons and is conducting a genocidal civil war in the south." U.S. officials publicly maintain the attack was valid, but they've also retreated substantially from their original explanation of the attack. Sudan's tarnished reputation may have minimized the political fallout from the strike, but Mr. Idris's lawyers believe they may have enough evidence to take the government to court. Then again, a jury may not be too sympathetic to a plaintiff whose own experts concede that many of his business interests are linked with Sudan's Military Industrial Corporation -- considered...
Neither side would strike again after the first period as both goaltenders had outstanding games. Snee earned the game's first star stopping 33 Crimson shots and Prestifilippo grabbed the second star turning aside...
Indeed, Russian submariners have been gratefully taking delivery of tons of potatoes, cabbages, carrots and beets from Russian towns that have "adopted" submarines. The local utility has periodically shut off electric power because the Sevmash yard hasn't paid its bills. Its restless, unpaid workers have been threatening to strike. As dozens of Russian submarines rust in port, production of new ones has ground to a halt...
...sell more than a minority stake to foreign partners. Toyota remains a respected global player but has suffered along with the economies of all the Asian countries. Similarly, General Motors remains the world's largest automaker, with lucrative foreign alliances, but was set back by last year's strike...
...secular Jewish intellectuals and renounces Yiddish as "the dialect of garlic." Years later, one of Faygela's daughters converts to the new heresies of Darwin and Marx, and is arrested for distributing radical pamphlets. Another daughter interprets Little Red Riding Hood as a unionist parable: "She goes on strike, and the big, bad boss has no choice, he has to give her grandmother...