Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Friday, consumer activist Ralph Nader testified for the committee that Breyer has demonstrated "a pronounced inclination to favor corporations" over smaller businesses and consumers...
Fried described Nader's conduct as "bizarre" and said he gave the consumer activist's charges no credibility...
...industry report. The Software Publishers Association says piracy of spreadsheet and similar programs lost companies $7.4 billion in 1993, compared to about $8 billion in sales. The worst abuses were in emerging markets in Asia and Latin America. But Stanton McCandlish, the maverick Electronic Frontier Foundation's "on-line activist," argues the theft trend may have actually helped the complaining software industry: "Piracy gets software exposure. People are 1,000 times more likely to go and buy newer versions and manuals once they've been exposed to it."parpar
Eros attributes some of his editorial brashness to his days as a student activist in Germany and Britain, where he was schooled in engineering and filmmaking. When he returned to Indonesia in 1981 after 12 years abroad, he got a massive case of culture shock as he confronted opposition to his Western-inculcated ideas. "I was so overwhelmed," Eros says, "that a doctor advised me to lie down for three months and not say or do anything." By 1986 he had been up and around enough to make a critically acclaimed feature film, Tjoet Nya' Dhien, about an Indonesian woman...
...take no pleasure in possessing or being possessed by them. It's Michelle Pfeiffer's task to provide Will with TLC, and as Laura Alden, his super-rich boss's daughter, she is tough, patient and fearless when at the end she must become an especially passionate animal-rights activist...