Word: waging
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...players' contract with the owners expires on Sept. 15, and the two sides are nowhere close to an agreement. "The league has been preparing to trigger a lockout for many years now," says Ted Saskin, senior director at the NHL Players' Association. The owners are looking for wage cuts (according to the Levitt study, NHL players take 75% of league revenue, compared with 58% in the NBA), although they don't seem eager to cut the jobs of all those goons by eliminating fighting. Still, Davidson hopes the "black eye to the sport" will force the league to confront...
Michael J. Hines ’03-’04 asked Summers whether he supported the civil disobedience of the 2001 living wage campaign, when members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement staged a sit-in at Mass. Hall...
...most innocuous of transgressions. On Feb. 24, in an answer to a reporter's question, the President said he hoped voters would support Uri Party candidates in legislative elections next month. That was a technical violation of South Korea's election code?and pretext enough for his enemies to wage constitutional war. The country's Presidents are supposed to remain impartial, and Roh received a light rebuke from South Korea's election commission for the comment. When Roh refused to apologize, lawmakers moved to impeach him. For good measure, they also cited as grounds for kicking him out of office...
...many ways, they're a mirror image of the thinking in Washington two decades ago, when Shiite radicalism centered in Iran was deemed the most threatening. When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, the U.S. cooperated with Saudi Arabia in recruiting and arming hundreds of Sunni Muslim radicals to wage jihad. One unintended consequence of that program, of course, is the international jihadist brigade known today as al-Qaeda. But the operating assumption at the time was that the Wahabi brand of Sunni radicalism was innately conservative and therefore a natural ally of the U.S. against both the godless communists...
...Liberal” camp, where nearly half of Harvard claims inclusion, are many genuine liberals of the College Democrats variety, with their John Kerry bumper stickers, their aging “Living Wage Now!” buttons, and their carefully cultivated subscriptions to the New Yorker. But most of the others are liberal pretenders; moderates by trade, they reside in political limbo, non-committal to either the paradise above them or the hell below them. But since it’s indisputably “cooler” to be a liberal in college, so many confused moderate souls...