Word: striking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Court employees crippled the judicial system yesterday with their third strike of the anti-drug war, led by judges who want guns and bulletproof cars for protection from assassins hired by cocaine barons...
...union of judges and court workers said this strike had no time limit. The first strike lasted a week and the second three days...
Also yesterday, all 42 of Medellin's federal judges announced they were resigning, according to the Colombian radio network RCN. They had begun an indefinite strike Thursday, demanding more protection from drug traffickers...
...Strike banners hung from the windows of the downtown building where scores of judges have offices...
FLIP on the tube at 6 p.m. and you can catch re-runs of "The Beverly Hillbillies," a sit-com about a family of "poor mountaineers" who strike it rich and move to the West Coast. In their Beverly Hills mansion, Granny prepares 'possum for dinner while daughter Ellie Mae plays with her new brassiere, which she thinks is a "double-barreled slingshot...