Word: activistic
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...being appointed to the federal bench by Reagan in 1986, Sporkin has made himself a name as a man with little patience for malfeasance by Big Business. "He's a rare judge who is sympathetic to the way the law intersects with consumer interests and investor interests," says consumer activist Ralph Nader. It was Sporkin at his most sulfurous who dismissed the 1990 suit by which Charles Keating tried to regain control of Lincoln Savings & Loan, whose collapse cost taxpayers $2 billion. Bluntly accusing Keating of "looting" Lincoln funds, Sporkin also pointed the finger at the lawyers and accountants...
...Forrest Gump" is a muted, conservative diatribe with mock indignation. Unlike Streisand, Hanks said that the artist is a citizen in most countries he knows of, but their only responsibility is to vote by secret ballot like every other citizen. He repeated again and again "I am not an activist." Some opinionated reporters would kiss him for that...
...Pretty Good Privacy) is a popular public-key encryption system originally developed by computer nerd-turned-political activist Philip Zimmermann. Check it out on the World Wide Web at http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html for information on creating your own keys...
According to Trumbull, the candidates include Wayne "Rusty" Drugan, treasurer of the Republican City Committee, Peter Sheinfield, a vice-chair of the committee, Paul DeLeo, a ward chair, Arthur Malenfant, a ward chair and Ed Feinman, a Republican activist...
...city police and fire departments. Helped by affirmative action, about one-third of blacks have made their way into the middle class. ``To an amazing degree, it has worked,'' says Roger Wilkins, a history professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and a longtime civil rights activist. ``If you stopped all affirmative action, we would slide backward...