Word: actioner
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...decisions has bred a seeming indifference among this class. The wealthy simply go about their lives as if nothing has changed, ignoring that it is precisely their leadership that Pakistan needs now more than ever. They should be the ones mobilizing the people and pressuring the government to take action against injustice. But they are the ones content with the status...
...Kennedy’s decades of legislative accomplishments were an extension of this deep sense of empathy. Individual kindness and charity, even in the great abundance Kennedy offered, can never help all those in need. This requires action on a larger scale, the types of efforts to reach millions of Americans that can only be achieved through legislation. Kennedy’s vision of government as a force for doing together the good that we cannot do alone—the essence of his liberalism—stemmed directly from his compassion for every individual. Through government, we can pursue...
...fewer have explored the decidedly liberal content of that dream. Kennedy’s speech was delivered following an unsuccessful primary challenge against a sitting president of his own party who, Kennedy argued, was failing to live up to Democratic ideals. The speech was a call to action for liberals, and its core themes of helping those in need through civil rights, universal healthcare, and a renewed “commitment of the Democratic Party to economic justice,” remained his core beliefs nearly three decades later...
...This strong start must be backed up by further action. The EPA should classify fly ash as a hazardous material, just as mercury, battery acid, and PCBs are. Doing so would require power generators to adhere to higher disposal standards and clean up existing dumping sites as well as increase public awareness of fly ash’s toxicity. Regulators should also ban disposal of fly ash in slurry form and require utilities to store dry fly ash in lined landfills to avoid leaching. The federal government should create financial incentives for makers of building materials to recycle more...
...Thirty years ago, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident spurred Congress and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to make nuclear power plants safer. Similarly, the Kingston spill has revealed a need for government action and greater responsibility from coal-burning utilities. The coal industry must be pressured by the public and elected officials into becoming as “clean” as it can be. Despite what the industry may publicly proclaim, there is no such thing as clean coal, at least not yet. Nobody knows this better than the people of Kingston, Tennessee...