Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Haynes criticized those who advocate these more activist efforts as not taking the time to think through issues and form concrete plans for how to implement the reforms they seek...
...moon until they lost their senses. Gene Autry predicted that such things could happen in the famous cowboy ballad Don't Fence Me In. What modern men fail to realize is that those open skies are open because they are owned and operated by the U.S. government. When activist Dick Carver climbed aboard his Caterpillar bulldozer to open a road in a national forest, he wasn't posturing for the independent Western man, he was lobbying for the cheap grazing fees charged by the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service, grazing rights that in turn...
Tenants and supporters of subsidies for affordable housing will smile upon the CCA slate, especially outspoken activist Lester P. Lee, Jr, while former opponents of rent control will back the Alliance candidates...
That could prove to be an understatement. Brown, 61, is up against incumbent Frank Jordan, 60, a former police chief who came to office as a pro-business "non-politician," and Roberta Achtenberg, 45, a former Assistant Secretary of hud and lesbian activist who is hoping to tap into the city's sizable gay vote. The result is the most closely contested mayoral race in the nation. When voters go to the polls on Tuesday, Nov. 7, they must choose among a low-key pragmatist like Jordan, a well-connected professional pol like Brown and a seasoned social activist like...
...surest measure of a country's freedom is the security enjoyed by its minorities. Irish human-rights activist Paul Hill said last night at an honorary dinner sponsored by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations and the Irish Cultural and Historical Society (ICHS) at Eliot House...