Word: vigil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Almost 50 demonstrators, braving the wind and rain, last night began a 24-hour vigil at the Medical School to protest Harvard's use of animals in laboratory experiments...
...Wednesday some students not with Yale President A. Bartlett Giamatti to express support for the union. They held a vigil outside the negotiation on Friday...
...women's vigil outside Giamatti's office is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. this afternoon, and a student rally is planned for 12:30 p.m. tomorrow. Organizers said they were planning the women's vigil because 90 percent of Local 34 members are women and many see the debate as a sex, discrimination issue bettors women statically are paid less than...
...Begin voted, the Likud would be able to defeat the bill. On Wednesday evening, however, word reached Jerusalem that Zeigerman was flying home. As the Knesset prepared to vote, photographers clustered at Ben Gurion International Airport awaiting Flight 332 with Zeigerman aboard, while another clutch of reporters stood vigil outside Begin's house...
...drive began in earnest last Monday as amendment supporters staged a night vigil on the Capitol steps in a rainstorm, praying for prayer. Inside the House chamber no amendment had yet been approved by committee, but 59 Representatives, mostly Republicans, took the floor Monday afternoon to speak in favor of one in a session that rolled on until well past dawn on Tuesday. Many speakers associated the absence of prayer in schools with such social evils as drug abuse and sexual promiscuity. Virginia Republican Frank Wolf charged dramatically that the rate of teen-age suicides "began to climb at approximately...