Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Bok made a standing offer to Moroz to come to Harvard in November 1974 while Moroz was on a 20-week hunger strike at Vladimir Prison near Moscow. Moroz has spent most of the last 14 years in prison for "anti-Soviet propaganda and agitation...
Still more of the bounce seemed to be taken out of Carter's guidelines program in Akron last week. Negotiators for the 55,000-member United Rubber Workers, a strike-prone union whose contract expired last week, claimed that they had come to a tentative agreement with three of the nation's four major tiremakers. The deal, according to the union, would include raising the current average wage of $8 an hour by $1.14 over three years, increasing the COLA clause and pensions, giving a Christmas bonus to retirees and providing for retirement after 25 years...
...with Carter's advisers, but Bommarito declined, although he said he would get together with Federal Mediator Wayne Horvitz and officials of Uniroyal this week. In any case, Bommarito warned, if the tiremakers try to settle for less than the union had announced, he was prepared to call a strike. Likely targets: Goodyear or Uniroyal...
...while serving a 14-year sentence for "anti-Soviet propaganda and agitation" at Vladimir Prison near Moscow, Moroz went on a 20-week hunger strike to protest his confinement and poor living conditions at the prison...
During Moroz's hunger strike, at the urging of members of the Institute, Bok sent a letter inviting Moroz and his family to spend the 1975-76 academic year at Harvard. The offer has been periodically repeated since then, most recently in April...