Word: put
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...metropolitan daily quickly became a cause celebre. More than 10,000 municipal workers and other sympathizers joined strikers in a rally outside News headquarters. Inside, the strikebound paper's editors were frantically offering jobs to reporters at other publications and trying to woo back wavering staffers to help put out the News. "My boss was on the phone again this afternoon pleading with me to come back," said a striking reporter. "It was an incredibly hard sell. He said, 'You still have your job, but we can't promise that for tomorrow...
...anxiety was as high-pitched as the blue-collar tabloid's front-page headlines. Not since Ronald Reagan fired striking air-traffic controllers in 1981, which put unions on the defensive for the rest of the decade, have the stakes seemed so high in a labor struggle. "This is happening in New York City, which traditionally has been a union stronghold," says Philip Mattera, author of Prosperity Lost, a study of worker setbacks in the 1980s. "If the unions can be broken in New York City, that's going to be felt throughout the country...
...ground, Penn will put the ball in the hands of senior tailback Steve Hooper, who has carried the ball 91 times for 467 yards. But Harvard linebacker Joe Gordian isn't too apprehensive about the Quakers' ground attack...
...Ranchers just put their animals on publicland, unguarded, and allow the [wolves] to get the`slow elk,'" Brown said. "Instead of keeping theiranimals on their property, the ranchers kill thepredators or get the Fish and Game personnel tokill them...
Cheney, in a speech to the Conservative Leadership Conference, put more emphasis on the role of oil in the gulf crisis than had been heard from the administration in recent weeks. He said that by taking over Kuwait, Iraq had gained control of one-fifth of the world's known oil reserves, and that its stake would have been far higher if Saddam had captured the Saudi oil fields...