Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Among the waves of activist and youthful vigor that permeated the student body in 1969, Franklin Delano Raines '71 remained a calm voice of moderation...
ACQUITTED. DR. JACK KEVORKIAN, 67, the right-to-die activist; of common-law assisted-suicide charges; in Pontiac, Michigan. The jury's not-guilty verdicts marked prosecutors' third failure to convict "Dr. Death...
...confrontation with federal agents will have the same impact on the militia movement as the sieges at Waco and Ruby Ridge, says TIME's Patrick Dawson. Duke, who is held in high esteem by most members of the Patriot movement, engineered the meetings after other intermediaries, including right-wing activist James "Bo" Gritz, had failed to end a standoff that has stretched in to its eighth week. Dawson says that neither Gritz nor Duke were persuaded that the Freemen were negotiating in earnest. For the Freemen, there may be no incentive to give up peacefully, Dawson notes. Most members...
...some respects Clinton's message is a little late. Over the past two decades, a number of activist groups, such as the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility and the Council on Economic Priorities, and consumers themselves have persuaded corporations to behave as if they lived in the community. Says Milton Moskowitz, a longtime tracker of corporate behavior and co-author of 100 Best Places to Work in America: "There are a lot more 'good' companies. Originally, way back, corporate responsibility had to do with an external commitment to the community and philanthropic contributions. Now it's even broader." Says Craig...
...restructuring as long as companies continue to be in the mode to redeploy assets. The question is how to do it fairly. That's what this conference tried to address." Clinton avoided calls from the left, including his own Labor Secretary Robert Reich, to take a more activist approach to combating stagnating wages and job insecurity. Earlier this year, Reich advocated reforming the tax code to reward corporations that avoid layoffs by retraining workers, among other things. Clinton, eager to distance himself from the big-government label, is urging companies to take these steps voluntarily. Saporito says that will only...