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strike and closed
The only techniques allowed are kicks ( delivering a strike using an area of the foot below the ankle ) and punches ( delivering a strike using the closed fist ).
A common one is the opened sunroof of a car: air passing over the top of the vehicle can, at certain speeds, strike the back edge of the sunroof, creating a very low frequency whistle which is resonated by the closed interior of the car.
The film itself was given federal loan guarantees, because the Disney studio had over-expanded just before European markets were closed to them by the war, and because Disney was struggling with labor unrest at the time ( including a strike that was underway at the time the goodwill journey began ).
The lower level contains two rail tracks and two sheltered carriageways, used for maintenance access and traffic lanes when particularly severe typhoons strike Hong Kong and the bridge deck is closed to traffic.
South Kentish Town tube station was closed in June 1924 after strike action at the Lots Road power station meant the lift could not be used.
* Punch ( combat ), a strike made using the hand closed into a fist
They settled the strike but closed the roundhouse, moving the overhaul base to Kansas City.
The principal employer in the borough, the steel plant closed in 1988, following a lengthy strike.
After a coal strike in the 1940s, the local coal mine closed, and the town lost most of its population and other business activity.
The factory in Canada closed in 1982 after a lengthy strike by Canadian workers.
The plant was officially closed in July 1986 ( never reopening after a nationwide strike against the company ), due to a poor economic climate and the decline of American steel in the 1980s.
Caphouse Colliery, just to the south of Thornhill, closed after the miners strike of 1985 and became the National Coal Mining Museum.
This was challenged by local residents, but closure was agreed in February 1955 for 15 June 1955, although the line closed on 29 May due to a rail strike.
When the smelter closed in 1980, during a labor strike, 25 % of the town's workforce was put out of work and the town has not recovered.
The detainees had been waging a hunger strike campaign, even resorting to physically sewing their lips closed.
The Butterfield factory closed in 1982 after a lengthy strike by Canadian workers.
Peñarol closed the decade of the 1930 with a second place, after losing a match to Nacional, in a tournament marked by the first strike of professional footballers in Uruguay.
There was another slump in 1928, and then another strike in 1929 after employers requested a 12 % wage cut ; 40, 000 cotton workers went on strike for a week and eight more mills closed, making it 28 closures in six years.
If the latches were not properly closed the pins would strike the torque tube flanges and the handle would remain open, visually indicating a problem.
By 1992, however, all three pits ( Dawdon Colliery, Vane Tempest Colliery and Seaham Colliery – known locally as " the Knack ") had closed, a process accelerated by the UK miners ' strike ( 1984-1985 ) and cheap coal imports from Eastern Europe.
It bans " unfair " union practices, outlaws closed shops, and authorizes the President to seek federal court injunctions to impose an eighty-day cooling-off period if a strike threatened the national interest.
When he does, he discovers why the mine was closed: fearing a communist revolution during the strike, Roland used it to store several tons of mustard gas, which has been there ever since.

strike and packing
The packing shed workers go on strike.

strike and industry
The industry may deliberately take a strike, not to put pressure on the union, but in order to `` educate '' the government and the customers of the industry.
As a strike continues, these parties increase their pressure on the industry to reach an agreement.
Of a population estimated at 94, 000 before the Black Death of 1348, about 25, 000 are said to have been supported by the city's wool industry: in 1345 Florence was the scene of an attempted strike by wool combers ( ciompi ), who in 1378 rose up in a brief revolt against oligarchic rule in the Revolt of the Ciompi.
According to Anabela Carvalho, an academic analyst, Thatcher's " appropriation " of the risks of climate change to promote nuclear power, in the context of the dismantling of the coal industry following the 1984 – 1985 miners ' strike was one reason for the change in public discourse.
In 1928, German industry under Krupp leadership put down a general strike, locking out 250, 000 workers, and encouraging the government to cut wages 15 %.
The latter measure was applied after the so-called general strike from 1 September to 3 September 1942, which paralyzed the administration, agriculture, industry and education as response to the declaration of forced conscription by the German administration on 30 August 1942.
Through a general strike, workers would take control of industry and services and self-manage society and facilitate production and consumption through the labour exchanges.
A year after President Harding contended with the 1921 mining labor war in West Virginia, a strike broke out during the summer of 1922 in the railroad industry.
Wilson tried to bring labor and management together, but when management refused, he had Congress pass the Adamson Act in September 1916, which avoided the strike by imposing an 8-hour workday in the industry ( at the same pay as before ).
After their victory he gave a speech at Hawarden on 23 September in which he said: " In the common interests of humanity, this remarkable strike and the results of this strike, which have tended somewhat to strengthen the condition of labour in the face of capital, is the record of what we ought to regard as satisfactory, as a real social advance tends to a fair principle of division of the fruits of industry ".
* March 6 – A year-long strike action begins in the British coal industry ( see UK Miners ' Strike ( 1984-1985 )).
* July 15 – A strike occurs against the United States ' steel industry.
* May 20 – Federación Obrera de la Industria de la Carne initiates a major strike in the Argentinian meat-packing industry.
These conditions can be changed and the interest of the working class upheld only by an organization formed in such a way that all its members in any one industry, or in all industries if necessary, cease work whenever a strike or lockout is on in any department thereof, thus making an injury to one an injury to all.
Through a general strike, workers would take control of industry and services and self-manage society and facilitate production and consumption through the labour exchanges.
As the British coal industry went into decline in the 1980s, this source of income dried up, and Britain had to abandon its Cape Verdean interests — which ended up being the final strike to the highly dependent local economy.
Hall was a leader of the 1937 “ Little Steel ” strike, so called because it was directed against Republic Steel, Bethlehem Steel and the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, as opposed to the industry giant U. S. Steel.
Milyukov suggests that the mood of the " democratic public " was in support of Trotsky's policy of the overthrow of the Romanov regime alongside a workers ' revolution to overthrow the capitalist owners of industry, support for strike action and the establishment of democratically elected workers ' councils or " soviets ".
The term " general strike " is sometimes applied to large-scale strikes of all of the workers in a particular industry, such as the Textile workers strike ( 1934 ).
The Walloon author Claude Renard explained the relative successes of the general strike by the relative small territory of Belgium ( and especially Wallonia where the industry was concentrated ).
By June 1941, 81 % of the miners of the national coalmining company, Charbonnages de France, were on strike, slowing deliveries of coal for the German war industry.
However, some miners considered Benn's 1977 industry reforms to have caused problems during the strike ; firstly, that they led to huge wage differences and distrust between miners of different regions ; and secondly that the controversy over balloting miners for these reforms made it unclear as to whether a ballot was needed for a strike or whether it could be deemed as a " regional matter " in the same way that the 1977 reforms had been.

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