Word: walkout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deadlocked. Then, with only 60 hours to go before 125,000 workers were scheduled to strike, G.E. raised its offer by a tiny amount; though the raise fell far short of their demands, union leaders seized it rather than risk an 80-day Taft-Hartley-Act injunction against the walkout...
...Soviet Walkout. Though some Red Guards had clamored for Mao himself to speak on National Day, he remained silent. Instead, Lin Piao once again talked for him. Lin lauded China's economic situation ("prosperous and full of vigor"), described the world climate as "excellent" for revolution, and called the U.S. and U.S.S.R. conspirators in "plotting peace swindles for stamping out the Vietnamese people's revolutionary struggle." As a result, the diplomats from the Soviet Union and six other Communist countries walked out of the celebration...
...overnight it became one of the biggest and most successful arts pageants anywhere in the world. The master manager and logistician also became adept at dealing with the peculiar brand of hysteria that so often swirls within musicians' souls. Once an Italian orchestra threatened a walkout because there were no coat hangers in the dressing rooms. Bing merely explained that the Scots have this quaint old custom of hanging their coats on the backs of chairs. Accordingly, when one is in Rome, one ought to, etc., etc., etc. Not wishing to offend, the Italians went native and played molto...
Wilson managed to prevent a walkout, largely because most African Commonwealth members had nothing to gain-and too many economic benefits to lose-by leaving. He offered no new tactics against Rhodesia, clung instead to the hope that his economic boycott would eventually bring Smith down...
...Michigan, which has had more public strikes (15) in the past twelve months than in 17 previous years, 250 Lansing workers recently won pay hikes and benefits worth $100,000 a year after a three-day walkout that shut down everything but the city's golf courses and graveyards. Garbage men have been on strike in Dayton and Youngstown, Ohio, and in Louisville, where one militant leader last week promised to hold out "until the garbage backs up to the heavens." Around Detroit and Los , Angeles, teachers and welfare workers have joined the parade...