Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...organization is working with the Harvard administration to draft a "Campus Code of Conduct for Harvard Licensees," which would require the University to take an active role in preventing sweatshop conditions in those companies which make all Harvard apparel. According to the student activist group, Harvard has licensed at least one company which makes hats in just such sweatshop conditions...
...Spectator, to dig up and publish dirt about the Clintons and their friends. From 1993 to 1997, two Scaife foundations transferred $2.4 million to another foundation that owns the Spectator. The magazine turned over much of that money to Stephen Boynton, a Virginia attorney and conservative activist, who spread it around to hunt down stories about the President through various means, including private detectives. The possibility that the tax-exempt money was misused--which could jeopardize the tax-exempt status of the Spectator--was apparently troubling to the magazine's longtime publisher, Ronald E. Burr. Last year he demanded...
Robinson became Ireland's first female head of state in 1990 after serving two decades in the Irish parliament. During her seven-year term, Robinson was known for her activist, progressive stance...
Among the scheduled speakers is Beate Sirota Gordon, the only female framer of the MacArthur Constitution--which was instituted in Japan after World War II--and a present-day activist. She is of Russian origin but made a mark on Japanese history when she wrote the provision that guaranteed "essential equality of the sexes" in Japan...
Last week an activist group called the National Labor Committee accused Nike and other companies of running virtual slave factories in China, alleging that workers are habitually overworked and underpaid. It's the kind of charge Nike has faced, and denied, repeatedly regarding its operations in Asia. Nike subcontractors employ nearly 500,000 workers in plants in Indonesia, China and Vietnam...