Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quips to a reporter. In the next breath he grows serious, recalling how, when he first joined the party two decades ago, it sent its members to visit the Soviet Union, "telling us it was a workers' paradise. Today," he acknowledges, "that would make people laugh." Outside city hall, activist Gerard Kourland is selling L'Humanite, the party organ, and patiently explaining the difference between the Russian and French parties: "We officially gave up on the dictatorship of the proletariat in 1976. And even before then, we had our doubts...
...sustained assault. The Bush plan perhaps should be regarded as a clever White House effort to put its imprimatur on a popular rebellion that was already reshaping educational policy from the grass roots up. Local school bureaucracies are already under siege from a variety of forces -- innovative Governors, activist courts, maverick educators and aroused parents...
...expense of the depositor," said the chairman of a state commission investigating the disaster. If the 14 do not return the money, the panel recommended court action against them. The revelations are only likely to fuel the fury of Rhode Island's put-upon depositors. A local consumer activist is calling for Sundlun's resignation if all frozen funds are not defrosted by Dec. 31, the anniversary of RISDIC's fall...
...very conservative, I am glad to be out of there," he says. "I will not miss being stereotyped as a left-wing activist hellbent on destroying the canon of Western literature...
...very conservative, I am glad to be out of there," he says. "I will not miss being stereotyped as a left-wing activist hellbent on destroying the canon of Western literature...