Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Threats. "General Henry H. Shelton...said the proposed strike was 'still a valid operational plan.'" (New York Times, 11/17/98...
Boston's courts are not the first to strike down school desegregation. Courts fromOklahoma City to San Francisco have declared thatdiscrimination in school systems is now virtuallyeradicated and no longer in need of federaloversight...
...easy story for the National Football League strike of 1987 and for the baseball strike of 1994. But the NBA is not like other boys...
Then, while the U.S. remained "poised to strike" if the holes in the cheese were not filled, Annan fatally undermined the U.S. position when his personal representative in Baghdad pronounced the letter unconditional Iraqi acceptance of U.N. terms...
Still, there is something coolly mesmerizing and wonderfully disturbing about the CD. Beck's lyrics, though elusive, are not nonsense. They obsess about issues of death and decay, and they strike at something deep, evoking feelings of sadness, melancholy and regret. "A worm of hope/ a hangman's rope/ pulls me one way or the other," he sings on Cold Brains. On another track he sings, "Treated you like a rusty blade/ A throwaway from an open grave...