Word: activists
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...policy in international economic affairs. During its first five years in office, the Administration had adopted a generally hands-off policy. Donald Regan, who served as Treasury Secretary during the President's first term, and Beryl Sprinkel, the Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs, did not believe in taking an activist policy role. Strong advocates of free markets, both men believed that the private sector should be left alone to solve world economic problems. They opposed intervening in currency exchanges to halt the rise of the dollar. They also believed that the world debt crisis could be handled mainly between private...
Last May, the Faculty Council revived the CRR--which had not heard a case since 1975--to decide discipline for 18 students involved in two spring anti-apartheid protests that highlighted the recent escalation of activist on campus...
...national list of high- priority hazardous-waste sites. The following year the town government forced the plant to close. "Two years ago I thought it was over," says Leah Abbott, one of the homemakers in Holbrook (pop. 11,140) who has found herself transformed into an environmental activist...
Aurora Levins-Morales, a Puerto Rican activist and poet, read from her works about sexual and racial alienation last night at Radcliffe's Agassiz House...
Conservatives will dominate the country's policy-making into the 21st century if they emphasize emotionally-charged issues like school prayer and abortion, noted conservative activist Richard Viguerie told about 75 people at a Kennedy School study group yesterday...