Word: activistic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...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...
...minister of one of the expelled congregations told reporters she was "stunned" over the lack of dialogue preceding the vote. In Nebraska, however, there was a healthy debate both inside and outside the church in which the hearings took place. The Rev. Mel White, a California-based gay-rights activist, imported 100 protesters, who faced off outside the church with a flock led by peripatetic Kansas-based Baptist minister Fred Phelps, who's gaining a reputation as the nation's most vociferous anti-gay crusader. Inside, Creech told a panel of priests that he intentionally violated church law because...