Word: activist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wedding party sat glumly ignoring the ruckus, as the street theater proceeded outside. "We felt bad about disrupting the wedding," said Kamaria Finch, a Sarah Lawrence activist. "But when we saw the waiters giving us thumbs up, it was worth it." Union Summer was learning to kick butt...
...privatizing the agency, while some experts say they hope the agency exploits revolutionary technologies to improve flight safety, such as the enhanced ground-positioning warning system, which might have averted the December crash of an American Airlines jet in Cali, Colombia. Still, even if the FAA takes a more activist role rather than scrambling for cover after the next plane tumbles out of the sky, planes will fall. "We are dealing with machines and people, and they are not flawless," says air-safety expert Rudolf Kapustin. "Sadly, we're going to have accidents. But we can have fewer accidents...
Although, to be fair, we should acknowledge that by catering to corporate America in this way, Mr. Clinton had hoped to gain running room for an activist agenda on health care, the environment, national service and the like, but unfortunately that strategy has been less than successful...
This was great for Bauer, who has long labored in the shadow of the other baby-faced Christian activist, Ralph Reed. Yet Bauer professes to be mystified by Dole: "We prayed together in his office recently, and I gave him a lot of help on his Hollywood speech." By making the fight personal, Dole got everyone so caught up in skirmishing that most of the coverage missed the central fact that Dole hasn't changed his commitment to ban most abortions--or the actual party plank--one iota. That's the beauty of making a friend an enemy, however temporarily...
...says the membership decline is partly the result of a reduction in the general activist role that CLUH used to play...