Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West"-soon get under way. By careful cajolery, Alioto persuaded Warner Bros, to build a public swimming pool in Hunters Point-the ghetto's first -where movies may be filmed and residents can pick up paychecks as extras. Along the way, he helped settle an eight-week newspaper strike...
...from school and fair press coverage, Go-mulka's speech was an official brushoff. Many continued cutting classes or staging sit-ins outside them, even after signs went up threatening expulsion-and a loss of draft exemption. At Cracow's Ja-gellonian University, students staged a sitdown strike for two days running. Warsaw University authorities locked the campus gates when thousands of students refused to attend lectures. At War saw's Polytechnical Institute, some 5,000 students sacked out in the hallways, playing cards, listening to Chopin tapes and tuning in Western news broadcasts, including reports...
Antenna Tail. To determine the behavior of objects penetrating the earth at high speed-a science that Sandia has named "terradynamics"-engineers have used projectiles weighing from 5 Ibs. to 6,000 Ibs. that strike the earth vertically at speeds of from 41 m.p.h. to 1,870 m.p.h., depending on the drop altitude and method of release. Some are merely shoved out of airplanes or hovering helicopters; others are dive-bombed or rocketed to boost their velocities. The best penetrators, Sandia has found, are pencil-shaped missiles of heavy metal that are at least 8 to 10 times longer than...
Capricious Phrases. The due process clauses of the Fifth and 14th Amend ments have been particularly mangled, he feels. In the past, a majority of the Court has often used due process, said Black, to "strike down laws which Justices found to be 'unreasonable,' 'arbitrary,' 'capricious,' or 'contrary to a fundamental sense of civilized justice.' What, for example, do the phrases 'shock the conscience' or 'offend the community's sense of fair play and decency' mean? I submit that these expressions impose no limitations or restrictions whatever...
...first quarterly profit in 18 months. Its auto sales for the current model-year have been running about 10% ahead of last year's levels. Encouraging as those signs may be, however, A.M.C. knows that its recovery prospects could be scuttled by either an auto-production strike or a costly labor settlement...