1.   Last week, amid talk of a student boycott or faculty strike, a faculty delegation met with trustees to complain about Hicks management style.

2.   More recently, when the son of a local pizza parlor operator ran for office without machine backing, a student boycott ran his father out of business.

3.   Growing student boycotts have given focus to sporadic nationwide unrest triggered by the collapse of pyramid schemes, increasing pressure on the government.

4.   Growing student boycotts have given focus to sporadic nationwide unrest triggered by the collapse of pyramid investment schemes, increasing pressure on the government.

5.   Student boycotts and hunger strikes have played an important political role in Albania in recent years.

6.   The resurgence of student boycotts in recent days could give focus to sporadic, countrywide unrest triggered by the collapse of pyramid schemes last month.

7.   The spread of student boycotts throughout the nation has increased pressure on the governing Democratic Party to resign in responsibility for fraudulent get-rich-quick schemes.

8.   They have been backed in recent days by student boycotts, significantly increasing pressure on the government.