Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turned-member of the band. Myrna Gellman (Sabrina Peck) has one of the livelier roles, and Peck provides the infectious enthusiasm and strong singing that the play must have to survive. Other characters: the British corporate heir of clipped accents and buried principles (Anthony Calnek) or the young committed activist, Barbara MacNeil (Sue Morris), carry off competent portrayals of paper-mache stereotypes...
...many fields, unions are being forced to get along by going along. For years the United Auto Workers has taken socially activist positions on many issues, including civil rights, the environment and welfare. But economic pressures on the auto industry have forced the union generally to support relaxed auto-emission standards, for example, and to back the building of a new Cadillac plant in the Poletown section of Detroit that would provide jobs but has uprooted hundreds of poor families in the process...
Changed is the activist political slant of the old Forum, which Amey DeFriez, chairman of Radcliffe's Board of Trustees, had said did not reflect "the proper role of Radcliffe." Changed is the Forum's orientation toward feminism, toward working women in the community or on Harvard's payroll. Changed also are the demands and concerns of Radcliffe students...
That decision to uphold the law provided the fuel for Wilkes' fire; a stream of leaflets, all printed on legal size white paper, and all anonymous, circulated throughout the city, accusing the CCA candidates, and in particular tenant activist David Sullivan, of conducting a "reign of terror" through their vigorous attempts at enforcing the statute. Wilkes denied responsibility for the leaflets, and they certainly did not match the slick tone of the rest of her campaign; whoever put them out, though, helped her efforts. And the Independents wooed her supporters--a group calling itself the Cambridge Condominium Network endorsed Wilkes...
...William Ewald Jr., one of his speech writers, contends that Ike was a masterly administrator and a subtle protector of presidential authority and options, with a sure instinct for when finally to commit. He also argues that the legislative record was at least as constructive as that of various "activist" Administrations of the recent past. All in all, says Ewald, "eight good years-I believe the best in memory...