Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quickly set to work constructing what they called an "educational and benefactory society" on the site of an old ranch near Parral, 250 miles south of Santiago. Before long the newcomers had built a model community that offered many of the area's 20,000 residents access to employment, trade, free hospital services, an elementary school and, eventually, even a European-style restaurant on the nearby highway...
...commandos routed several hundred occupying strikers at the Nowa Huta steel mill near Cracow, reportedly injuring at least 40 of them. Meanwhile, police surrounded the more recently occupied Gdansk shipyard, isolating a strike force of about 1,000, which included Lech Walesa, legendary founder of the outlawed Solidarity independent trade union...
...second half was a different story. If not for exceptional goaltending Dermody (15 saves), Harvard probably would have been able to trade in its cleats and sticks for calculators and source books this weekend...
...trying to deny. The casual acceptance of ignorant superstition at the highest political level speaks of an intellectual retreat, for which the Reagan Administration has often been criticized. We have seen the emergence of a blind faith that "it"--the debt, the decaying environment, the nuclear menance, the drug trade--will all work out somehow, as if by magic; perhaps by the same kind of primitive sorcery that designates propitious and unpropitious days for the President...
...apparent effort to divide the strikers. As tension mounted, authorities threatened to fire strikers and hinted that riot police might break up the protest. Several dozen Solidarity activists and sympathizers were detained, including Jacek Kuron, a senior Solidarity adviser. On Saturday, the government announced an accord with the trade union, but the strike continued...