Word: activist
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...cities and announced a $25,000 radio campaign in five states and in Washington to try to persuade moderate Republican Senators to join with the Democrats to shut the trial down. The Democratic National Committee organized 200 "State of the Union Watch" parties at people's homes to rally activist support. The scandal has been very good to the party: small-dollar direct-mail response in 1998 was up 53% over 1994, the last midterm year, and opinion polls have seldom shown a greater differential between the two parties in favor of the Democrats...
...activist '60s, many suburban whites cared (even if rather naively) about the problems of urban blacks; in the materialistic '90s, suburban whites, like urban blacks and just about everyone else, care mostly about themselves...
Kansas City-based Sprint is another activist firm that has reached out to local organizations and identified qualified people with disabilities for a host of jobs, says Margaret Hastings, the company's human-resources manager. According to the communications giant, an estimated 385 employees out of a total of 51,000 have designated themselves as having a disability. The company tries to work with people where and when they need it, Hastings adds. "The company gave me an opportunity when I felt I didn't have any options," says Deanne Dirksen, 24, a department assistant based in Louisville...
DIED. IRON EYES CODY, 94, icon of environmentalism; in Los Angeles. The Cree-Cherokee actor and activist, who appeared in 100 films, struggled for decades before achieving celebrity with a role in a historic 1971 public-service spot for Keep America Beautiful. (Later he made a sequel.) As the American Indian who sheds a tear at the sight of a landscape littered with garbage and polluted by smoke, Cody brought the nonprofit group unprecedented attention and support. In 1996 a New Orleans newspaper alleged he was of Italian descent--a charge Cody vigorously denied...
DIED. ANITA HOFFMAN, 56, social activist; of breast cancer; in San Francisco. Wife of the late Yippie Abbie, Hoffman joined her husband in some of his more outlandish activities, such as disrupting trading at the New York Stock Exchange by showering the floor with money. She also supported him for years while he hid from the police to avoid drug charges...