Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hoped would influence the debate on welfare reform. It did, but it was too late to head off a welfare bill he opposed. PHIL KNIGHT, CEO of Nike, saw a 77% increase in profits last quarter. That was clouded by the report of a Vietnamese-American labor activist that many Nike shoes are produced at plants in Vietnam where the mostly female work force faces corporal punishment and 12-hr. workdays. All that for about $1.60 a day. Nike promised changes...
However, LaFollette suggested that in response to such blatant activist bashing, environmentalists should turn the tables on right wing politicians...
...former member of the Jazz Band, is tremendously active today as a performer, composer, writer and political activist, and his music blends jazz with folk music elements from Asia and the Pacific Islands...
...order for the council to align its image with its capability, it must try harder to present itself as an organized body of dedicated students; it must pay less attention to politics and more attention to its self-stated activist goals: "to represent student interests; to secure an active role for students in deciding official policies...to foster and coordinate campus-wide social activities...to promote and fund student groups and organizations...and finally, to serve as a campus-wide forum for the expression and exchange of student ideas and opinions...
Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus George Wald, the Nobel Prize recipient and peace activist hailed by Time Magazine as one of America's best teachers, died of natural causes Saturday, April 12 at his home in Cambridge...