The great railroad strike of 1877 started on July 14 in Martinsburg‚ West Virginia‚ in response to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad cutting wages of workers for the third time in a year. This strike had a big impact because the striking workers wouldn’t allow trains‚ mainly freight trains to roll. They had one term to make this dilemma get dropped; drop the third wage cut. The events that lead up to the strike were simple‚ they had cut the pay outs three times‚ so no one’s gonna be happy. Let’s
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Indian black money From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia In India‚ Black money refers to funds earned on the black market‚ on which income and other taxes has not been paid. The total amount of black money deposited in foreign banks by Indians is unknown. Some reports claim a total exceeding US$1.4 trillion are stashed in Switzerland.[1] Other reports‚ including those reported by Swiss Bankers Association and the Government of Switzerland‚ claim that these reports are false and fabricated‚ and
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John McMillian’s lively cultural history offers readers a contemporary perspective on the legacy of the sixties underground press‚ comprising hundreds of cheaply produced‚ unevenly written weekly/biweekly “rags” (his term throughout the book) from mimeographed sheets (a copy produced on the precursor to a photocopier) to tabloids‚ which eventually merged New Left politics with a counterculture communal aesthetic intended to connect‚ reflect‚ and advance the youth movement. Reading the book at this
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potential he showed. When he moved to Oakland‚ California with his family‚ he started to hang with the "wrong crowd‚" as he would call it. At age fifteen‚ he fell into rap by writing lyrics and acting like a gangster. Tupac joined the rap group Digital Underground as a dancer. Thereafter‚ he produced many albums that were heard throughout the country. Tupac’s stunning talent also got him a role in the motion picture‚ "Juice". In November 1994‚ Tupac was shot five times during a robbery in which thieves
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For this assignment I have chosen to identify‚ research and analysis a 2012 campaign for Adidas‚ executed by John Doe UK‚ a London based PR company and Adidas’ in-house PR team. The campaign is called‚ ’Adidas Underground’ and took place in London in a short time scale‚ just two months from July to August 2012 during the London Olympics. The campaign also ran on a relatively small budget of just £15‚000 considering what it consisted of. (prweek.com) Adidas along with Nike are the most influential
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800 scheduled services every weekday carrying about six million passengers on over 700 different routes making it one of the most extensive bus systems in the world and by far the largest in Europe. The bus system carries more passengers than the underground‚ because of the 24hour service with 100-routes in the nighttime. In 1829 the first buses drove the streets of London‚ but back then it was horse-drawn. The man that first thought of this was George Shilibeer. In 1850 Thomas Tiling started a horse
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Black Market The black market is not a physical place‚ but rather an economic activity in which merchandise and/or services are bought and sold illegally. Also called the “underground market‚” this market gets its name from the activity it conducts out of sight and often outside the sight of law enforcement. The black market or buying and selling of products and services take place often in plain sight. A black economy is a highly organized and a vast market where the regular taxation rules and
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believed that the Blitz spirit brought out the true colours of the British people and was a representation of endurance and defiance. Over the eight months of bombardment‚ people were exhausted from carrying gas masks‚ and feeling to shelters and underground stations‚ but overall no one really panicked and the spirit made people continue with their everyday lives. The Blitz spirit did exist and without it‚ people wouldn’t have lasted the 57 consecutive raids‚ and because of this they were few calls
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book is the black market‚ or what they refer to as the underground and “shadow economy”. The underground has its choices and consequences as well as any other type of economic system do. But‚ in this case the underground can be a country’s main economy for survival such as‚ “In Bolivia the underground economy is responsible for an estimated 65 percent of GDP. In Nigeria it accounts for perhaps 76 percent.” (7) This type of GDP from the underground is usually found in the developing worlds. That’s not
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The previous wallets handed out were sponsored by Ikea who also sponsor the tube map‚ and did not display the Oyster or the London Underground logos. In addition to the official wallets distributed by TfL‚ which may or may not carry advertising for a sponsor‚ Oyster card holders and wallets are sometimes used as a marketing tool by other organisations seeking to promote their identity
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