It was introduced in 1986--ostensibly to avert a strike by dock workers over the shift to containerisation.

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We don't have that on our pianos, where even with the shift the hammers still strike two strings.

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Eight months later came the general strike, which also failed to shift him.

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In December workers at Mercedes's Sindelfingen factory near Stuttgart went on strike after the company said it would shift production of its C-Class cars to Alabama, so Mercedes promised to maintain employment at the plant until 2020.

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Wagashi strike me as the equivalent of edible poems: A single one can simultaneously mark an occasion, reflect a shift in nature and allude to a work of literature.

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