Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They chose to strike against him not in the federal Bundestag, where they are outnumbered 251 to 48 by Adenauer's Christian Democrats. Instead they organized a revolt in the provincial legislature of North Rhine-Westphalia, which contains the rich Ruhr. Free Democrats made a deal with the opposition Social Democrats, with whom they otherwise had nothing in common, to overthrow able Christian Democrat Karl Arnold, the Minister Pres ident (governor) of North Rhine-Westphalia. They had nothing but admiration for Arnold and said so; they were simply out to get at Konrad Adenauer in Bonn. By a vote...
Last week the horror of the Black Hole was re-enacted in the newly independent Sudan when some 300 rioting Sudanese farmers on strike at a cotton project on the White Nile were rounded up by police and locked in a room at the new army barracks at Kosti only 65 ft. long and 23 ft. wide. "There were more than 300 of us in that prison room," said one who escaped at last. "We were all tired from the police chase and sick from standing too long under the sun. The room we were put in had only...
Last month, afraid that an all-round wage hike would whip Israel's cantering inflation into a gallop, the government reneged on a promise to raise professionals' pay. The professionals had taken all they could: 8,000 of them went on strike. Doctors, judges, lawyers, engineers, teachers and civil servants walked out of clinics, courtrooms, lecture halls and government offices, leaving the untrained and unskilled to fend for themselves. Said striking professors at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: ''The future of Israel in the Middle East depends on its position as a state highly developed...
...surrender settled the strike and put the professionals back to work at their drawing boards, operating tables and lecture platforms. But it stopped far short of redefining the professional's position in Israel. "To our leaders," said one indignant Israeli, "the illiterate in the transit camp is still just as good as the brain surgeon in Hadassah Hospital, which is an admirable point of view for the Lord to hold but a damn silly...
Although the company will be able to start up appliance production as soon as the strike ends, the big problem will be to recapture the slice of the consumer-goods market that has already been lost to competitors. Example: a Los Angeles chain that normally sells more than 3,000 Westinghouse refrigerators and laundry units a year is receiving only 35% of its normal volume, and is selling General Electric appliances instead. Nevertheless, Westinghouse has kept most of its dealers loyal by stretching inventory, stepping up advertising allowances, and in some cases even supplying them with competitors' products...