Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last year's Commencement speaker, Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, was a pro-abortion activist whose extreme views were offensive to many Harvard students, but we on the Right were mature enough not even to consider shouting her down...
...means, a trade-policy "activist" might reply, but why should pressuring Japan to open its markets effectively close America's? The question is--one hates to say it--naive and unrealistic. The domestic pressure for protection is relentless. To keep it in check, governments need to be shrewd. They need to deny the enemy opportunities and arguments. The Clinton administration seems ready to supply both...
...give him the political cover to do so. Probably the first to go will be ! General C.P. van der Westhuizen, the head of military intelligence, who was accused of telling a security official in 1985 that an A.N.C. leader should be "permanently removed from society." Two weeks later, the activist was murdered...
...pray before walking neighborhood streets to try to keep order, joined hands nervously as the verdicts approached. At the word "guilty," all leaped to their feet, literally jumping for joy. Some hugged and kissed, others exchanged jubilant high-fives. Outside the courthouse, Rose Brown, a self-described community activist, cried, "Finally there is justice in this country...
...best available figures though everyone knows they're guesstimates. Kinsey's were the only statistics on sex for years. No one in America really has a clue as to the size of the illicit drug trade, though multibillion-dollar figures are commonly tossed around. Mitch Snyder, the late activist for the homeless, once admitted his figures on people without shelter were essentially meaningless. "We have tried to satisfy your gnawing curiosity for a number," he told a congressional hearing, "because we are Americans with Western little minds that have to quantify everything in sight, whether...