abstract:The "shot heard 'round the world" is a phrase that has come to represent several historical incidents. The line is originally from the opening stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn" (1837), and referred to the beginning of the American Revolutionary War in the battles of Lexington and Concord.
Earlierthis year, NLRB fired a shot heard round thebusinessworld when itbroughtcharges againstBoeing, seeking to force it to abandonplans to openan assemblyplantinSouthCarolina.