Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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About 15 students watched a film last night about the strike by Mexican-American farm workers during the 1960s. Afterwards, Daisy M. Rooks, an organizer for the United Farm Workers (UFW) spoke about current conditions and ongoing campaigns...
...film, titled "Chicano: A History of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement," depicted the strike of California grape workers led by Caesar Chavez from...
Wells looked shaky throughout and struggled to keep his breaking pitches down in the strike zone, but he lasted three innings and allowed only one unearned run before his defense collapsed in the B.C. half of the fourth...
...Quarter-Pounder with cheese in Macedonia, Ohio, you'll have to cross a picket line. Six young McDonald's employees got so angry over management's alleged rudeness and refusal to grant leave over Easter that they launched the first-ever strike against the company in the U.S. "Trade unions have never gone after McDonald's because its workforce is so transitory -- it's mostly composed of kids," says TIME correspondent Edward Barnes. But while the nation's sunny economic prospects may embolden service sector labor, the major threat facing McDonald's in the three-day-old strike...
Without Walesa, the occupation strike in the Lenin Shipyard might never have taken off. Without him, Solidarity might never have been born. Without him, it might not have survived martial law and come back triumphantly to negotiate the transition from communism to democracy. And without the Polish icebreaking, Eastern Europe might still be frozen in a Soviet sphere of influence, and the world would be a very different place. With all Walesa's personal faults, his legacy is a huge gain in freedom, not just for the Poles. His services were, as an old Polish slogan...