Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...McVie, though aggressive, is also reserved and aloof. McVie constantly harps on helpless love ("So go and do what you want/I know that you're happy/don't worry baby, I'll be all right/you'll never make me cry) while Nicks is the tidal wave of passion ready to strike the helpless drowner ("Every night you do not come/your softness fades away/did I ever really care that much/is there anything left...
Bergenheim said the professors had in effect held a sympathy strike--in violation of their contracts--and could not expect to escape punishment...
...does not matter how well organized the workers are or how effective the strike is," Chavez says. "In agriculture that is not enough because the growers use thousands of illegal alien strikebreakers to respond to their workers' just economic demands...
...When the strike began, growers insisted farm workers observe President Carter's 7 per cent wage-price guidelines even though they exempt both growers and workers. In 1978, lettuce growers made$71 million in profits and raised the price of lettuce by over 100 per cent. When growers realized workers would not accept their 7 per cent offer, the union-busting began...
...what happens to the strikes? A unanimous walkout by farm workers at the struck lettuce ranches--the most successful farm strike in U.S. history--was broken through the grower's mass strike breaking tactics...