Word: picket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about as much as management seemed willing to grant the lesser dancers all together in raises. So bitter were feelings that the company canceled performances, while superstars like Gelsey Kirkland joined the picket line. Last week. Godunov complicated things by abruptly resigning from the A.B.T. before ever dancing a single pas because he had become an issue. Not so, insisted the dancers in a group note urging him to reconsider and requesting "the honor and privilege of being your friends." Balletomanes are awaiting the next act with understandable interest...
Most recently Silber began proceedings to fire or suspend five activist professors because they refused to cross picket lines of striking clerical workers, contending that they violated their contracts...
...five professors refused to cross a picket line of secretaries and library staffers at the beginning of the year. All of the professors, however, held classes off campus or allowed other professors to handle the courses...
...anything?to free them. The White House, for sound tactical and strategic reasons, rejected the military options (see box). There were demands for the mass deportation of the 50,000 Iranian students in the U.S.?or at least those who had taken advantage of their visas to picket and demonstrate against the U.S. That was also rejected, since it would blatantly violate U.S. immigration laws...
After the Shah's arrival in New York in late October, Iranian students in the U.S. launched a series of protests. There were daily picket lines outside New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, where the Shah was undergoing treatment (see box). Members of one group chained themselves to railings inside the Statue of Liberty for three hours; others made an abortive raid on the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia. Far more ominous was the fusillade of anti-American rhetoric launched by Ayatullah Khomeini. Denouncing the U.S. as "the great Satan," he compared the relationship between the U.S. and Iran...