Word: activistic
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Participants debated whether the organization should serve as a clearing-house for activist information and database of institutional memory or as a group that itself acts on various social and political issues...
However modest Gephardt's agenda may be, Republicans point out, it would fall to his committee chairmen to carry it out. Almost to a man (and they are all men), those in line to take the jobs represent the most liberal, activist core of the Democratic membership. But they too say they got the message of the 1994 elections. "The goal is not just to have a program but to accomplish the goals that a program is supposed to achieve," says California's Henry Waxman, whose seniority would give him a choice of several committee or subcommittee posts. "The Democratic...
Moler said the industry has undergone major changes over the last 15 years, and that the government is now pursuing a more activist role in fostering competition...
Readers of The Crimson often observe the many headlines announcing the council's passage of activist legislation, but very rarely do they see those ideas come to fruition. Is it because we are not looking around campus for results, or because The Crimson fails to report the success of these projects. Sometimes, the socially conscious projects that do ocomp aren't noticed, because most students don't care. Other times, the administration so obviously opposes the legislation that the council fights battles it cannot...
PRETORIA, South Africa: The testimony of a man convicted of right-wing political murders in South Africa may solve a notorious, nine-year-old murder mystery in Scandinavia. In 1986, Swedish prime minister and anti-apartheid activist Olof Palme was shot in the back by an unknown gunman. Testifying Thursday in an attempt to mitigate his sentence on murder and robberies, Eugene De Kock said former South African spy Craig Williamson had led an operation to assassinate Palme. The murdered Swede had supported the African National Congress throughout the 1960s and 1970s and was one of the foremost supporters...