Word: walkout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent unrest began on July 2, with a peaceful walkout of government employees that gradually shut down state-run banks, closed the national airport and halted public transportation. When talks to end the work stoppage failed and the government pronounced the strike illegal, union leaders vowed to step up the pressure. That threat brought extremists from both sides into the streets, resulting in the most violent political clashes in the capital since the 1979 insurrection that gave the Sandinistas power...
Greyhound became one of the latest casualties of debt last week when the strike-bound bus line entered bankruptcy proceedings. Although a violent, three-month walkout by 6,300 drivers was the immediate cause of trouble, Greyhound remains burdened by $430 million it borrowed in 1987 when it went private in a leveraged buyout and acquired the Trailways bus line. After the buyout, Greyhound cut wages to restore profits and found itself on a collision course with drivers, who struck last March. Greyhound has since hired more than 3,000 nonunion drivers and says its ridership has reached...
Throughout the brouhaha, Clay (who will star in the summer film The Adventures of Ford Fairlane) maintained his customary off-camera swagger. Commenting on Dunn's walkout, he told Entertainment Tonight, "I think she's just doing this because I am the hottest comic in the world today." Not true, but for one week he came awfully close. Alas...
...protest that was as alarming as it was original, Harvard Law School professor Derrick Bell last week declared not a sit-in but a walkout: he announced that he would take a leave of absence at the end of this academic year and would return to work only when Harvard added a tenured "woman of color" to the law faculty. "I cannot continue to urge students to take risks for what they believe," he said, "if I do not practice my own precepts." Added Bell, whose salary is about $100,000 a year: "I will view removing myself from...
...tycoon last year forced Shugrue to resign from his post as president of Continental Airlines, the other wing of the Texas Air holding company. Members of the International Association of Machinists, who had been staunch enemies of Lorenzo, said they would seek immediate talks to end their 13-month walkout...