In Atlanta, about 20 fast-food workers at two different chains presented their managers with "strike letters" before walking out, Roger Sikes, a coordinator with the nonprofit group Atlanta Jobs With Justice, told Reuters.
I had my notebook out and each time the rain struck a letter it would smear aesthetically.
Automation also creates ways to monitor each office worker's efficiency: through computerized information, managers can, for example, count the number of times per hour that a typist strikes a letter on the keyboard.
The impression, he wrote in a letter, "struck me as being as near murder as anything I could think of in connection with the army & I always had a horror of that branch of the service".
One prominent New York-area Catholic, Kevin Doyle, who runs the state's capital defender office and voiced sympathy with the cardinal's tough position, said he was struck by the letter's legalistic tone.
The book's title isn't actually J, but a special character – the letter struck through twice – that is pronounced in the novel with two fingers over the lips for fear of who might be listening.
I was struck by a letter to The Independent this week from a reader noting that the Prime Minister had put out a statement on Terry Wogan's death, but had nothing to say about the death a few days earlier of Paul Kantner, guitarist with the sixties band Jefferson Airplane.
Leo Fraser, a Republican from Pittsfield, the third senator who changed his mind, said that several factors figured in his decision, including doubts that capital punishment was a deterrent to crime, but that he was particularly struck by a letter from a woman in Guilford.
The nearest thing would be the phone keyboards that let you slide a finger around them instead of striking individual letters.
The Bloomberg administration set in motion on Friday a broad contingency plan for a school bus drivers' strike, sending letters to parents and principals and buying hundreds of thousands of MetroCards for students who could be left without transportation.
