Word: activistic
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Answering the questions is no easy assignment, as the sometimes floundering efforts of official Washington demonstrate. The activist consensus of the cold war, which made every foot of turf on earth a prize to be won or lost, has evaporated. At the same time the venerable formula that U.S. forces are to be used to protect vital interests and key allies seems less than adequate to guide the country in a violent world of fluctuating priorities. Will America's $260 billion-a-year military machine be sent into action to fight only aggressors like North Korea, Iran or Iraq...
POLITICAL ACTIVIST ARIANNA HUFFINGton is the Betsy Ross of America's current conservative risorgimento [REPUBLICANS, Nov. 6]. In a recent TV debate, she was impressive as she made cogent and compassionate arguments in a heated exchange with veteran leftists Betty Friedan and Karen Burstein. Huffington for President in 2000? ROBERT D. LEVINE New York City
Pointing to the activist reform approach which a large part of the council has adopted this semester, committee members said Simons' leadership style and philosophy is more in tune with the committee's sentiments than Haynes' were...
...activist ideas this year and we would like to see the concerns of the students addressed," he said. "Many felt she tended a little too much to go along with the faculty...
More than 100 people, including human rights activists and the daughter of the elected president of Nigeria, gathered at a candle-lit vigil last night for Ken Saro-Wiwa, the Nigerian environmentalist and activist executed last Friday...