Word: unionizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the occasional street activist will inevitably mumble something about "yankee imperialism" and "ruthless American multinationals," the vast majority of Argentines know better: namely that throughout the past 45 years, their economy, along with the Soviet Union's, has been the world's most mismanaged. In fact, Argentina has become the classic example of a nation that, simply through misguided economic policies, has virtually destroyed its once-competitive position in the world economy...
...Alfonsin lead the nation out of the depths of the "dirty war" of the late 1970s and early 1980s and successfully prosecuted leading members of the brutal military junta responsible for the "disappearance" of more than 9000 alleged "subversives" during this period, but he also tried to democratize the unions. Predictably, his legislation calling for rank-and-file elections of union leaders was defeated by Peronist opposition in the Senate...
...Council came out against a possible attempt by Harvard's administration to litigate and push off recognition of the newly-formed Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, seeing as the union won in a fair election. Harvard decided not to litigate, and recognized the union's legitimacy...
...they emerge blinking from the long shadow of Soviet suzerainty. Walesa's mission also underscored a larger truth. In ways large and small, Western Europe is becoming a player in its own right on the world stage, increasingly less reliant on the U.S. and less cowed by the Soviet Union at the same time as it evolves into a more unified community. Never again will Washington be able to take Western Europe and its allegiance for granted. "We have grown up and have stronger muscles," says Italian journalist Ludina Barzini. "It's going to be difficult for America to understand...
CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS: CULTURES OF SIBERIA AND ALASKA, Seattle Center Pavilion. Art and artifacts by native peoples on both sides of the Bering Strait, assembled in the first such joint effort by the U.S. and Soviet Union. Through...