Word: activist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wake of criticism from graduate students and student activist groups, the University of Pennsylvania last week changed its residency policy to allow unmarried couples to live in its residence halls...
Malcolm X's relationship with Mohammed was comparable to the activist's earlier association with the gang leader of a Harlem hustler society, Epps said...
Members of the Massachusetts chapter of NOW instructed a group consisting mostly of women in combat and defense tactics to counteract action by Operation Rescue, a prolife activist group which organizes highly publicized blockades of abortion clinics...
...moderate Republicans and White House aides fingered conservatives PATRICK BUCHANAN, Jack Kemp and Bill Bennett for causing the President's political problems. Outraged conservatives struck back the same day. "All three men are crisscrossing the country attempting to save the Bush & campaign . . . whose spokesmen are attacking them," right-wing activist Brent Bozell complained in a letter to White House chief of staff James Baker. But even before the blame game started, Bozell and fellow activists had privately invited top conservatives to meet late this week to plot the movement's recovery from a Bush defeat...
Bitterness toward the entrenched Washington elite and anxiety over the economy have produced a bumper crop of unconventional challengers. Major-party candidates for Congress run the gamut from a gay Republican activist in Los Angeles to a former Black Panther in Chicago to a Wyoming ophthalmologist who promises to return to private life as soon as Congress passes health-care legislation. And many incumbents, who normally trot confidently to re- election, are running scared in the face of this unexpected assault. At least 150 newcomers are expected on Capitol Hill next year. That number includes 85 seats in the House...