Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the Administration's seeming indifference, 24 U.S. unions will call for a boycott of Haitian goods this week. At the Washington headquarters of TransAfrica, a group that lobbied successfully on behalf of the antiapartheid struggle in South Africa, activist Randall Robinson began the third week of a hunger strike to protest the U.S. policy of repatriating Haitian refugees. He saw nothing to please him about Clinton's Haiti stance. "The President is responsible for what constitutes a disaster in Haiti," he said. "The longer he waits, the more people...
...Mandela, consensus must be its own reward, for he does not always get his way. During his imprisonment on Robben Island, he wanted to stage a strike to force the warders to address prisoners with the honorific "Mr." But he was always turned down by his comrades. Last year he urged the A.N.C. to reduce the voting age to 14, but his colleagues refused. Once he has lost, he publicly speaks in favor of the position he opposed. "I sometimes come to the National Executive Committee with an idea and they overrule me," he recently observed. "And I obey them...
...addition, about 50 protesters clad in black shirts and red armbands marched around the campus quadrangle carrying signs reading, "Strike: Chicano Studies...
...club did not want a strike, did not askfor a strike," Silverstein says. "The union causedthe strike. The union chose to go on strike...
...Turchiano also maintains that the club has thefunds to meet the demands of the workers, who havebeen on strike since April 3 to protest possiblechanges in wages, vacation time and benefits...