Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...main difference is that Kansas is a publicinstitution and is bound by state laws as opposedto Yale which is private and answerable to noone," said Eve S. Weinbaum, a Yale graduatestudent and union activist...
...student at Harvard Divinity School and a community activist with the Boston-based Queer Asian Pacific Alliance, said gay Asian Americans face societal pressures to conceal their sexual identities and to maintain a "stoic forbearance...
...nomination of Dr. Henry Foster, the President said he would "go to the mat" for his nominee for Surgeon General. Clinton downplayed the fact that his press conference was only picked up by one major network, saying "I am relevant. The Constitution gives me relevance. A president, especially an activist president has relevance." Clinton sought to paint himself as a moderating influence on the House, and said he had shown "good faith" toward Republicans. Most of the good faith he was speaking of centered on welfare reform. Clinton called for Congress to have a reform bill on his desk...
...causing its normal fits, and the waffling prize on this issue goes to Lamar Alexander. As recently as last summer, Alexander was telling prospective supporters that his views were too nuanced for labels. "That was O.K. for pro-choicers like me,'' says Mary Louise Smith, a leading Iowa G.O.P. activist. "I really don't understand his change." Alexander today describes himself as pro-life -- with a tortured caveat about "not wanting the government to subsidize, encourage or prohibit" abortion. When I asked if he would permit military personnel to get abortions at government hospitals (as Clinton allows, in a reversal...
Winters, who considers Malenfant a "great friend," said she is a full-time grass-roots activist...