Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Handicapped activist Ted Kennedy Jr., Cambridge City Councillor David E. Sullivan and activist Mel King urged citizens at the rally to register three days before the deadline...
Edward Cyr, a North Cambridge activist who came 12th in last year's council race, also said he would probably run. He praised Sullivan as "not a shoot-from-the-hip politician...
...Hoover has found his veto power no more effective than a thumb in the dike in stanching a flood of progressive (the "L" word is no longer used in capital environs) legislation. By the time Congress adjourns in mid-October, it will have compiled a record in passing landmark activist legislation exceeded in recent years only by the Great Society 89th Congress of 1965 and 1966. Says House Speaker Jim Wright by way of explanation: "There were pent-up needs too long deferred." Adds Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd: "We were too long in the desert. It seemed like...
...group of activist alumni said yesterday it is considering taking legal action against the University to block recommended changes in the Overseers election process...
...bring about such long-term changes, Verba said Harvard must take a more activist approach to updating its extensive library system, a network that currently includes 98 separate libraries and is the world's largest private collection...