Word: walkout
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...expect the situation to improve. Another of the city's power brokers, provincial governor and Pashtun leader Haji Abdul Qadir, was in Bonn for talks on the future national government when he staged a walkout, citing a lack of Pashtun representation. One of his last acts before leaving Jalalabad had been to declare that visitors entering Afghanistan through the Khyber Pass?one of only two border crossings from Pakistan?must first obtain written permission from his office. Permission costs $100. Foreigners traveling to Jalalabad must stay in his residence. This also costs $100, or more than triple the price...
This, of course, is where our vaunted free thinkers start chalking peace signs. Indeed, they have already begun. Last weekend, thousands of protesters marched in Washington, D.C. to oppose military action. Efforts are underway on campuses across the country to organize a student walkout when allied strikes begin. And, closer to home, the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice has made “finding peaceful alternatives to President Bush’s calls for war” one of its stated purposes...
...Students in North Carolina are planning a one-day walkout of their classes to stand up for their workers," she said...
...could not have arranged: the respected news radio station Ekho Moskvy went off the air for a few minutes as guards moved into the NTV studios. (Ekho Moskvy is part of the Media-Most group but not the subject of any disputes.) The seizure of the studios and the walkout by the journalists may also have diminished American TV magnate Ted Turner's prospects of acquiring a substantial minority interest...
...your story about Boeing's decision to move out of Seattle [BUSINESS, April 2], you referred to the strike that the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace staged against Boeing as a "38-day walkout." It was 40 days. We who walked are proudly wearing pins that say 40 DAYS, SPEEA STRIKE 2000. Every day was a struggle and a triumph. Please don't short us. SUSAN BROWN Seattle...