Word: banners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Efforts to ban the same banner from the statehouses of South Carolina, Mississippi and Georgia have also failed. But the fight goes on. Says Earl Shinhoster, regional director of the N.A.A.C.P.: "The increased waving of that flag, of singing Dixie and the rise in racial hate groups mean it is time to take a concerted effort to remove these symbols...
After months of wrangling, the Social Democratic Party dismembered itself last week. At the University of Sheffield in central England, party delegates voted 273 to 28 to merge with the nearly twice as large Liberal Party. The two centrist groups had been partners under the Alliance banner since 1981, and began talking merger when their candidates won only 22 of 650 seats in last year's parliamentary elections. But while their formal marriage was intended to strengthen future showings, it sealed a bitter divorce between the Social Democrats and former Leader David Owen, who co-founded the party...
Highlights of the two encores included a banner-shaking rendition of "Don't Stand So Close To Me '86" and, on a quieter note, another acoustic Police song, "Message In A Bottle...
...hardly wait for the Christmas holidays to end, for the big event of the year comes in icy January: Profit Sharing Day at Andersen Corp. For 74 years Andersen, a leading U.S. manufacturer of windows and patio doors, has split a chunk of its earnings among workers. After a banner 1987, this year's pot promised to be huge. But the 3,700 employees, many of whom rented limousines and dressed in their finest Saturday-night steppin'-out clothes to attend the Jan. 16 ceremony, had no idea just how huge. Amid gasps of surprise, Andersen Chairman Arvid Wellman disclosed...
Despite police worries, the atmosphere in the provincial capital of Belfast is more relaxed than it has been for years. The city's bars and restaurants are thriving. During the holidays, a Protestant banner opposing the Anglo- Irish accord was altered from BELFAST SAYS NO to BELFAST SAYS NOEL. The province as a whole seems less tense. Unemployment is at 17.6%, down from almost 20% a year ago. British troops are visible only in the 15% of Northern Ireland where the I.R.A. is most dangerous. Aside from the bandit country, these areas include West Belfast and sections of Londonderry, where...