Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thought we could erase the political division on the council," Seton says of the "student services" versus "activist" debate over the council's mission. "We thought we could get beyond that...
...foodmakers can no longer count on the public's unquestioning acceptance of their products, it's not just because of activist theatrics and shrill agitprop. To be sure, it was Greenpeace that pressured Gerber to drop genetically altered soybeans and corn from its baby foods and played a key role in forcing Monsanto to halt research on its self-sterilizing "terminator" seeds. But more measured voices have expressed doubts as well. Says Rebecca Goldburg of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF): "As a biologist, I find it hard to oppose genetically engineered crops or foods per se. [But] I also think...
...very least, it could be good theater. Earlier this month, U.S. Labor Secretary Alexis Herman, in Seattle to drum up support for free trade, was picketed by steelworkers, antinuclear activists, Free Burma advocates--and Anne Kirkham, 26, of the Bicycle Alliance of Washington. "I'm a bicycle activist, but it's all one big thing--globalism, urban sprawl, pollution," she explained. "It's about corporate greed...
...political activist and we cherish that--even though she is of the other faith," he quipped, referring to her family's Democratic heritage...
DIED. JACOBO TIMERMAN, 76, voluble Argentine journalist and activist imprisoned and tortured by military forces after the 1976 overthrow of President Isabel Peron; of a heart attack; in Buenos Aires. Timerman's 1981 best seller, Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, sparked international outrage over human-rights abuses...