Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...health effects of smoking are drawing new attention from federal regulators. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed a ban on almost all indoor smoking in the workplace. Even more significant, the activist Food and Drug Administration is taking a look at whether to classify nicotine as a drug -- a move that could effectively remove cigarettes from the over-the-counter market. FDA commissioner David Kessler told Congress he believes that nicotine is a "highly addictive agent" and that cigarette producers control the level of nicotine "that creates and sustains this addiction...
...tobacco lobby to try to influence Congress, for the first time members of the antismoking Congressional Task Force on Tobacco and Health outnumber pro-tobacco House members, 58 to 42. "The tobacco industry, while still a powerful force, has lost its virtual stranglehold on Congress," says antismoking activist John Banzhaf, executive director of Action on Smoking and Health...
...Feminist activist Rebecca Walker encouraged today's young adults to become more involved in women's rights issues in the Take Back the Night keynote address last night at the Institute of Politics...
...only required one signature to support all of them. Nor is it clear that it would be a bad thing to require a certain number of signatures for each question. Representative governments always have to find a balance between the popular will and stability. Allowing one group of activist students to flood the student body with referendums may not be the best system...
State Sen. Michael J. Barrett '70 (D-Cambridge) attended Harvard while anti-war and civil rights protests were sweeping across campus. But Barrett was never a student activist. Instead, he chose the role of mediator as a member of the Student Faculty Advisory Committee...