Word: walkout
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...know, the baseball walkout makes the sport look bad. But if you look at some of the underlying issues, the importance of the sport to American civic culture is borne...
...those of you who feel your lives are worthless without baseball (and I pity you if you fall into this category), at least form a boycott of opening day next season--whenever that might be. Fans were planning a strike this year, but the players started their walkout before the fans could get organized...
...atmosphere of rampant lawlessness -- kidnapping tourists, oil executives and diplomats is a favored way of registering complaints against the government -- tensions between the North and South increased. Al-Beidh's walkout crippled the government's capacity to act, even preventing the passage of a budget for this year. In January hundreds of people protested price rises in the North. With inflation exceeding 100% and devaluation of the Yemeni riyal eroding incomes averaging less than $600 a year, the government feared a recurrence of the food-price riots of December 1992, in which more than 100 people were killed...
...could have voted, walkout of Leverett House,and that would have been it," Greenfield said. "Itwas only because I lingered that she found outthat I wasn't from Leverett House...
...first nationwide walkout by truckers since 1979, as many as 75,000 Teamsters struck to protest plans by shipping companies to hire part-timers and to send more goods by rail. Many of the 22 companies transport raw materials and parts, so even though there were some delays, there was no immediate impact on consumers...