Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prove that Ayyash's demise had not crippled them and by the need to bring Hamas back to the fore after the marginalizing effects of the elections. "We want those who are planning to ignore us to know that we are bigger than they think,"says "Odeh," a Hamas activist in the West Bank...
...devotee of things Zen since a stint in Japan as an Air Force medical technician, sits remarkably calmly in the eye of a storm he helped create, maintaining what may be the most realistic vision of how far the tobacco wars can ultimately go. "I'm not an antismoking activist," he insists. "I think people are going to continue smoking, no matter what." And that inescapable fact, in the end, may be the best weapon Big Tobacco...
Stout described her own development as a social activist and outlined her personal vision for the future in Saturday's keynote address of Education for Action's (E4A) week-long anti-violence initiative...
William Cavellini, another housing activist, agreed...
Then in 1989, environmental activist Sam LaBudde galvanized public opinion by releasing dramatic videos of drowning dolphins. In 1990, StarKist, the world's largest tuna canner, responding to consumer sentiment, announced that it would buy only tuna caught by other methods. That same year, LaBudde's group, Earth Island Institute, successfully sued the Bush Administration to bar tuna imports from Mexico and other Latin American countries that failed to protect dolphins. European nations followed suit, which extended the embargo to an estimated 80% of the canned-tuna consumer market...