Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hour hunger strike at Swedenborg Chapel on the corner of Quincy and Kirkland Streets, beginning Friday morning at 9 a.m. The event, sponsored by the Tibetan Association of Boston, also includes a prayer for freedom and a candlelight vigil at 6 p.m. that evening...
Rabgey makes it clear that the Coalition's strategy in planning the hunger strike is borrowed from famed activists of the past...
...period before the Tiananmen square massacre, and after Hu Yaobang, the ex-General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, passed away, democratic movements started all over China. Jiang Zemen, who was then Mayor of Shanghai, was the first to strike out against these movements. He banned the World Economics Herald special issue which commemorated Hu Yaobang, fired Qin Benli as the Chief Editor and put him under investigation...
...same day, he declared that "the foremost important political task at this moment is to thoroughly suppress the counterrevolutionary riot" and that "for those conspirators who planned, organized, and led the turmoil--and those counterrevolutionary thugs who participated in the riot--we must punish them according to the law, strike them with resolution and show them no leniency whatsoever...
Stanford University introduced a boycott against table grapes in 1995 after four students began a hunger strike demanding a boycott...