Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...court did not strike down any aspect of the city's ordinance; it merely ruled that the city could not enforce one specific component...
While the students had been prepared with reading lists (Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals) and video lists (John Sayles' film Matewan, about a coal miners' strike), some found themselves reluctant to embrace the gamut of militant tactics. There were nervous titters during training when Quynh Nguyen, a Vietnamese-American organizer, mentioned "Dumpster diving"--searching through company trash for information. And when hotel workers laid out plans for street theater during a wedding reception at the New Otani, many had misgivings. "I don't want to protest at someone's wedding," said Ramos, the Brown University student. "That's their...
Meanwhile, on nearby American fire bases, the night shift was usually cranking up for another round of mayhem. Since Cu Chi was a "free strike" zone, local U.S. commanders didn't really feel they were doing their job if they weren't chewing up the countryside more or less nonstop. Consequently, as the sun dipped below the horizon, artillery shells would whistle down through the jungle canopy and throw up enormous red sprays of laterite-clay clods...
...American forces are to stay in the gulf, the U.S. will have to defend them better. Fences and concrete barriers protect the Khobar compound, and after the attack in Riyadh, regular patrols were stepped up and lookouts were posted on rooftops. But no American official believed terrorists could strike with an explosion 10 times the size of the one in Riyadh. As General J.H. Binford Peay, commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, implied, the terrorists changed the rules. They showed "exorbitant" capability, Peay said, "in terms of a blast that you don't normally see in the normal...
Many issues involved in the strike particularly affect women, Kessler-Harris said. For example, she said, the institution of merit pay with no starting base wage not only undermines collective bargaining, but also has contributed historically to the abuse of women, who were particularly vulnerable to having pay withheld as a means of sexual harassment