Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rebate is higher, it will be largely because of two factors: a slight rebound by the New England economy and the activist approach of Murphy as a manager...
...rebate is higher, it will be largely because of two factors: a slight rebound by the New England economy and the activist approach of Murphy as a manager...
Ordinary Palestinians seem neither hostile nor jubilant yet, perhaps because they are not sure what has happened. "People are in a state of suspension," says P.L.O. activist Sari Nusseibeh. "They are waiting to hear the facts and how this will affect their lives." Nusseibeh is one of the few who "enthusiastically support" the deal. The road to a Palestinian state must begin somewhere, he argues. "We have the choice of continuing to dream of a palace in the sky or building a hut on the ground. From the hut, a palace can be built...
...changing for Irish women, who have been all but invisible in what may be Europe's most repressively patriarchal society. She found some hopeful omens in interviews with three of Ireland's leading feminists: the country's first woman President, Mary Robinson; poet Eavan Boland; and abortion-rights activist Ruth Riddick, who inspired the book's enigmatic title. (One conservative Catholic lady is quoted as saying of Riddick and her ilk: "Oh, those women! Those women encourage whoredom in Kimmage" -- a lower-class Dublin neighborhood...
...rounded up human-rights leaders and interrogated them. False reports in a government-controlled newspaper claimed that critics of Babangida were secretly being financed by the U.S. embassy. "They want to use the threat of a new civil war to bring out their tanks again," said a human-rights activist...