Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Quayle in fact resembles the activist Mondale model of a Vice President far more than the invisible-man version perfected by Bush. The difference is the heart of Quayle's salvation strategy. He staggered through the election branded an overprivileged airhead. As candidates or incumbents, Vice Presidents often attract some derision. For the young golf addict, it was a nearly lethal dose. "I came to the office adding a bit of luster to that ridicule," he muses. Allies advised him to go underground, to avoid risks. But with escalating speculation that Bush would dump him in 1992, Quayle...
...world's breadbaskets amounted to a devastating indictment of the Alfonsin government, which failed to act quickly enough to put Argentina's fiscal house back in order in 1983, when Alfonsin became the first civilian President in nearly eight years. The former human-rights activist valued political stability at the expense of wrenching but necessary economic changes to correct the country's low productivity, over-regulation, bloated public payroll and money-losing state- owned companies. By the time Alfonsin began pushing for economic reforms in 1985, his popularity had eroded, and the Peronist-controlled Congress was able to block...
This impatience often expresses itself as a disdain for activist rhetoric, and chants like "Derek Bok, get the word, this is not Johannesburg" only harden the president's resolve not to cave in to outside pressure...
This insistence on his racial identity isconnected to Watson's activities as an educator,an administrator and a social activist. ForWatson, the decision to take on the cause ofaffirmative action at Harvard was, he says, an"inevitable" one, stemming from years of combinedexperience in both his personal and professionallives...
...Watson says he has not had a choice inpursuing his activist course, despite thefrustrations he has encountered. "When you'retagged, you're it--that's what a minister oncetold me. It's something I could not refuse...