Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week petitions circulated in many parts of the country urging the creation of worker and peasant unions and demanding the right to strike. Dissidents also distributed a draft charter for a League for the Protection of the Rights of the Working People of China. Liu Nianchun, a labor activist, defiantly applied for formal registration of the unofficial league, claiming 120 founding members. At least one of them, Yuan Hongbing, was arrested. These organizing efforts are still small, but they worry the Chinese leadership because they could ignite major unrest, especially among urban workers. Inflation is running...
Kane Campion. "The Piano"--Two Oscar strike: 1)female 2)not Spielberg...
These protests culminated in a hunger strike byseven students--which later swelled to includemore than 30 and drew national media attention...
...again, Schami's narrative tactic seems more like salesmanship. He uses this structure not for any purpose so much as to revel in it for its sake. Modern authors like Calvino use a similar framework to lay bare all the peculiar social and intellectual conventions of reading , to strike at the very heart of our understanding of narrative, to unravel the fabric of reality-to bring the universe of perception to its knees. Schami uses it because it's cool and exotic...
When tenants declared there were code violations and O'Neil did nit have the money to make the necessary repairs, they went on a rent strike. Now he may loss the house...