Word: tysons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...political, knee-jerk response to the radical politics of today and makes very little sense," says Dershowitz, who is currently representing boxer Mike Tyson in his appeal of a rape conviction earlier this year...
...full-time assistants (and this is when he is on sabbatical) is not leaping out of his leather-bound chair to lunch with me at Bartley's Burgers. The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati pays the man $15,000 to speak. He's consulting with Mia Farrow, and mike Tyson is on hold from inside his cell...
Then there are the books. Five. Then the clients: Anatoly Scharansky, Claus Von Bulow, Leona Helmsley, Michael Milken, Jim Bakker, Mike Tyson, Penthouse, Frank Snepp, John Landis, John DeLorean, David Crosby, Patricia Hearst, the Tison brothers, various death row inmates, Rabbi Meir Kahane....There are more...
...than 10% of Arkansas poultry plants are unionized. The main impediment to organizers is high job turnover, which means that most employees are new and feel fortunate just to have a job. When asked about the absence of unions in all but two of his 23 Arkansas plants, John Tyson says this is the desire of the workers. "In 1984 we bought a plant in Dardanelle," he points out. "Last year 80% of the workers signed a petition to get rid of the union. They just didn't want it." But in July a judge overturned the decertification...
...Arkansas alone have signed on, many of them paying dues anonymously. "Yes, I'm afraid," says grower Don Allen, a leader of the Arkansas movement. "And that's a terrible thing to say in the land of the free and the home of the brave." Last February a Tyson memo to managers urged them to spread the word that the organizing was being led by "shady characters" such as socialists and animal-rights activists...