Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lopez, an author, health care administrator and community activist, joined a list of six other candidates endorsed by the CCA for the November 7 elections...
...distribution of books was Harvard's introduction to Danny Siegel, a poet, author, scholar, social activist and Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel guest for the weekend...
...then we have the PUCC's "activist" agenda. This isn't merely activist: it's disillusional. It's as if the PUCC suddenly thinks it's the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. It wants input into faculty hiring and tenure decisions, University divestiture from objectionable companies and a host of other heavy topics--like Core reform and financial aid policy--which, quite simply, are too important for a bunch of wild council faction members to decide for all of us. The PUCC claims to be able to effect these changes so casually that one wonders...
...basic rule that says that if you don't like the business deals of a particular corporation, or if you don't like their products, you don't have to buy what they sell). If the expected move by cable and telephone giants concerns him enough, he can start activist organizations to counter the problem that he believes to exist (there are already dozens of such programs fighting Wal-Mart and Microsoft). If Mr. Pasquale can motivate enough people to join and boycott offending corporations, they will have to comply with his wishes or risk closing down. He will...
...past 10 years. Hong Kong has of late become something of an embarassment to the United Kingdom, imperialism not being quite fashionable these days. The rule of law has generally prevailed in the colony, with freedoms of speech, press and religion guaranteed for everyone but the odd Communist activist. Still, until 1985, when the U.K. began to negotiate the colony's return to China, Hong Kong had no democracy; only in 1985 did the governors introduce some indirect representation into the legislature...