Word: striking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effort to stamp out dissent. They accuse him of censoring student publications and the student radio station. Most recently, they protest his effort to fire or suspend five of his staunchest critics on the faculty for teaching classes off-campus or making them up later during a clerical workers' strike this fall...
Immediately after his announcement, Reagan embarked on his two-part campaign strategy: 1) to concede no region to any opponent, and 2) to strike hard and fast, conveying a clear message to wavering local politicians that they must join him now or be left behind. Reagan's strategists hope that the blitz will lead to early victories in Iowa, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Florida, thus locking up the nomination before spring. Contends Reagan Press Secretary Jim Lake: "If we win the early primaries, we think it will be all over...
...Weizman stood by his original decision and urged the ministers to approve the deportation of Shaka'a. They did so unanimously. Except for one town leader in Gaza, a11 the remaining Palestinian mayors immediately resigned and later announced, for good measure, that they would begin a hunger strike. Many Israeli moderates were embarrassed by the Cabinet decision, believing it to be an exaggerated and heavyhanded response to a minor incident...
...from the Rocky Mountain foothills to Louisiana's Cajun country. Although domestic production is not expected to rise in years ahead, the new activity will keep it higher than it otherwise might have been. And there is always the possibility, however slight, that oilmen may get lucky and strike another Spindletop or Prudhoe...
...liberal coalition seeking to "set an agenda for the 1980's"--was in high gear. And after three days of meetings, plenary sessions, workshops, a luncheon and a dance, the disparate assortment of 2000 or so students, trade unionists, consumer activists, veteran '60s radicals (including former SDS and Harvard strike leader Michael S. Ansara '69), feminists, black and Hispanic leaders, social reformers, religious leaders and community organizers seemed to reach--or reaffirm--a broad consensus. Their common enemy for the next decade: corporate power...