Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other end of the spectrum from Bush, Ross Perot wants an "activist government" approach to gasoline use: namely, penalizing car owners. This plan has received more praise than it deserves. Whenever a candidate talks about sacrifice, the press calls him courageous. Taking money from the middle class isn't courageous. The most courageous sacrifice Ross could make would be to say: "Instead of raising taxes on hard-working folks or on productive capitalists, I'm donating a few spare billions of my own to the Federal Treasury...
Sheats said the group is a good model forproblem-solving situations in the real world, whenpeople approach problems from differentperspectives--scientist or politician,industrialist or activist...
...that I have influence. I was totally opposed to the 1990 budget deal, and it still happened. I'm not an activist. I do not give out congressional phone numbers. I do not urge behavior. No tea bags. This is entertainment. And in strict marketing terms, does it hurt me to be the only guy not making Dan Quayle jokes...
...unemployment continued to rise in 1992, many Republicans called for the heads of Brady and Darman, whom conservatives held responsible for the breaking of the tax pledge. But Bush defended them. Activist Republicans also called in July and August for Bush to demonstrate powerfully the shift in his attention from foreign affairs to the domestic economy by declaring at that point that Baker would serve as economic czar in a second term. But until last week, Bush deferred to Baker's preference for returning to the State Department...
...Masters of War that demonstrated that the hardest rock has a strong and still vital folk lineage. Folk now can comfortably encompass the salty sensitivity and social speculation of Willie Nile's Hard Times in America (Polaris) as well as the rap-inflected rage of the Native American activist John Trudell on AKA/ Grafitti Man (Ryko). It has a newer, wider compass, and, as ever, Bob Dylan is magnetic north...