Word: underground
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...next task is for the UAW leadership to overcome skepticism about the VEBA among its rank and file, both active and retired. Union skeptics have been waging an underground campaign against the VEBA on the Internet for the past several weeks and it is having an impact. "I think it's a conflict of interest for the union to represent us and take care of our health care," said Tom Avery, a UAW retiree from Pontiac, Michigan who was helping out on the union's picket lines...
...brother, one of 12 siblings, came to him one day after work and told him and his 13-year-old brother to pack their things and go. "I was kicked out for being a teenager," Smith said. He and other kids would buy small televisions and build huts or underground hideaways in the mountains where they would watch movies. Their behavior - much of it typical for teenagers "in the world," as they call the non-FLDS realm - would prompt admonitions from elders like "If you are not worthy, you can't get married...
...into jail before the arrival - and subsequent deportation - of former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, is the latest sign of a government determined to hang on to power at all costs. "The government has panicked," says Ahsan Iqbal, Information Secretary for Sharif's PML(N) party, speaking from an underground safe house. "What are they trying to prove by bulldozing all opposition to their plans? Does anyone think this can be called a democracy...
...Charbel Haber on See You in Beirut Whatever Happens, one of the band's original songs, which channels the postpunk era of Sonic Youth and the Cure but seems somehow appropriate in the current Beirut setting: a subterranean nightclub called Basement, which coined its slogan, "It's Safer Underground," during last summer's Israeli air raids...
...work Morgan has done at Stanford, most notably her forthcoming book on underground hip-hop culture in Los Angeles, “The Real Hip Hop,” added force to Morgan’s tenure bid, Higginbotham said...