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boycott To refuse to supply a customer or potential customer with one's products or to refuse to buy the products of a particular supplier, usually for commercial rather than political reasons. Compare
embargo.
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Boycott of Israel in question. (Arab boycott of companies trading with Israel)
Magazine article from: MEED Middle East Economic Digest; 5/24/1991; ; 700+ words
; Boycott of Israel in question The Arab boycott of Israel is being pronounced dead amid signs that Kuwait is...Israel, and Coca-Cola has been formally dropped from the boycott list. Edmund O'Sullivan evaluates the significance of these...
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Boycotts lack wallop, but they sure feel good
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 5/11/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...juggling chain saws throughout the film. David Harmon: As a person who boycotts all boycotts due to laziness, I am going to boycott your newly created "Boycott Boycotts Day." Ah, but by doing that, you'll be actively participating in a boycott...
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Boycotts - ours and theirs
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 11/16/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...60-year-long boycott against Israel by...associated with boycotts in which Jews participated...Beatrice Mendes's boycott proclamation. Various...smaller, more local, boycotts were proclaimed...place. The English boycott of Israeli academics...fizzled. Apparently, boycotts should not ...
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The boycott puzzle: consumer motivations for purchase sacrifice.
Magazine article from: Management Science; 9/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...threshold of boycott significance...facing calls for boycotts. More systematic...the impact of boycott activity on their...concerned about boycotts for several decades...ride upon the boycott actions of others. Yet, boycotts assuredly occur...
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 "The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)")
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BOYCOTT BACKERS: BRUCE IS HYPOCRITE.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); 11/12/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...New York City police officers - led a boycott of his concert in that city. Tonight...Cincinnati police. The irony of a Springsteen boycott from the other side of the coin isn...three groups spearheading the 16-month boycott of downtown. "He was a vocal supporter...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Dishonoured; Boycott fails to clear his name over assault of former lover.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 5/4/2000; 700+ words
; ...who summoned up the real venom. Geoff Boycott, who yesterday lost his appeal against...she said of her relationship with Boycott. 'Looking back I don't know what I saw in him.' Immediately, Boycott's current companion, 46-year...
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BOYCOTT STILL ON DESPITE BICKERING.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); 5/23/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...their demands, three groups leading a boycott against Cincinnati said the effort will...should the sparring be seen as a sign the boycott is starting to falter, they added...on.'' Along with the coalition, the boycott is led by the Cincinnati Black United...
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International boycott reports, 2003 and 2004.(Report)
Magazine article from: Statistics of Income. SOI Bulletin; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...further a prohibited boycott. Those U.S...participate in such boycotts are subject to...secondary and tertiary boycotts. In a secondary boycott, a country demands...cooperate with a boycott [Type 5] [3...participated in the boycotts listed may lose...
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 "Daily News Egypt (Egypt)")
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Boycott -- an act of despair.
Newspaper article from: Daily News Egypt (Egypt); 9/13/2009; 700+ words
; ...this week called for an international boycott against Israel. He cited the example of South Africa to show how a worldwide boycott could compel Israel to end the occupation...South Africa nor about the efficacy of a boycott of Israel. Also this week, Desmond Tutu...
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A BOYCOTT THAT I HAD TO HONOR.(Editorial)(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); 3/18/2003; 700+ words
; ...anti-Semitism among former boycott activists. As for myself...more honor an anti-Semitic boycott than I would dishonor an anti...to respect picket lines and boycotts set up by other working class...have violated the Cincinnati boycott or urged me to do so; this...
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boycott
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the United States the boycott has been used chiefly...resorted to the method. Boycotts may be either primary...example of a primary boycott is the refusal of aggrieved...legal status of the boycott differs with various...See H. W. Laidler, Boycotts and the Labor Struggle...
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Arab Boycott
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...general. It administered boycott activities and maintained a...articles clarifying how the boycott was to work. By 1976, 6...the secondary and tertiary boycotts or followed them only selectively...International reaction to the boycott ranged from repeated expressions...
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Boycott
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
...Americans. The goal of such boycotts was not only to protest...revenues. The term boycott is derived from a nineteenth...by another are both boycotts intended to force change...prices are practicing a boycott, as are companies that...So-called primary boycotts are direct boycotts...
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Secondary Boycott
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
...practitioners of secondary boycotts. Typically a labor union...will arrange a secondary boycott if less drastic measures...ineffective. Secondary boycotts have two main forms: a secondary consumer boycott, in which the union appeals...
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT The Montgomery bus boycott was a mass protest by African American citizens in the city...the national history of civil rights. The resultant massive boycott lasted for 11 months. It ended in late 1956 when the U...
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