Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Business returned to normal this week at two Mt. Auburn St. restaurants where picketing and a lock-out last Thursday ended in a settlement a day or two after the unrest began...
...list of 33 volcanic sites in the Western states, Alaska and Hawaii that could go off at almost any time. While the report carefully makes no predictions, it notes that some volcanologists fear that the eruption of Mount St. Helens, as well as other recent signs of seismic unrest in the U.S., may hint at the onset of a period of more intense volcanic activity for Americans...
...college has taken steps to calm the student unrest and brought in Rita Dudley, chief of psychology at Boston City Hospital, who met with student groups and faculty to help them deal with the incidents of the past several weeks...
...several times on U.S. network television, via satellite, in an effort to assuage U.S. concern about the Reagan visit. From Marcos' viewpoint, the visit is essential. The Philippines, like many other Third World nations, is deeply in debt to Western banks. Aquino's murder and the subsequent unrest came at a time of sharp economic slump and widespread rumors that Marcos is seriously ill. The result has been a palpable case of nerves among Manila's Western creditors. If Reagan were to take Manila off his itinerary, said Marcos, "it would be a blow to the country...
Last week's march of resistance was one of a number of signs of unrest in Argentina. In recent weeks an estimated 2 million wage earners (out of a total of less than 10 million) have gone on strike. In part at least, all of them share the credo expressed by the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo four years ago to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: "We have to understand the truth, otherwise a shadow of sadness will forever hang over the descendants of this shattered generation...