Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...look to their own people's interests first, our government has never shaken the image of itself as global police officer, or at the least, global parent. If Dan Quayle sees government as a sort of big father than the American government has obviously become the sort of social-activist parent who neglects his own kids because he's busy saving the world...
...obvious gaffes during the ABC forum, in which he fielded questions from studio-audience members in 10 cities. His testiness was apparent early on, when he opened the show by rebutting several points in the Jennings program. But he was surprisingly collected, though not particularly convincing, when a gay activist shouted out a denunciation of his stand on naming homosexuals to his Cabinet. (He is concerned, he said, that such a person would be "destroyed" in Senate confirmation hearings...
Earlier the same week in another part of South Central Los Angeles, black activist and entrepreneur Danny Bakewell, president of L.A.'s Brotherhood Crusade, led a coalition of minority contractors who were protesting their exclusion from riot-related demolition and construction by shutting down work sites that employed no African Americans. After one South Central site that had not a single black on a 10-man crew was shut down on a Friday, it was reopened the following Monday with newfound black workers. "Miraculously, black people were born and gained five years' experience," says Bakewell sarcastically...
Critics, like anti-biotechnology activist Jeremy Rifkin, decried the FDA decision, arguing that tampering with nature could endanger consumers. In fact, though, many seemingly natural foods, including corn, nectarines and navel oranges, never existed before humans began to cross-breed -- a form of genetic engineering that simply takes a little longer than the laboratory version...
...true grass-roots fashion, to get on the ballot. But as Perot gathers strength, the little people are finding themselves pushed out by local bigwigs. In Virginia a Perot backer says he was ousted, partly over his desire to include more blacks in the campaign. One Oklahoma activist, wary of losing control to local heavies, says he's keeping 35,000 petition signatures in a bank vault until he delivers them to state election officials. The Perot campaign insists that it is not trampling the grass. "Democracy, after all, is an unruly process," says Perot spokesman James Squires. Big changes...