Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...holdings in companies that do business in South Africa. The Board is elected by alumni to represent them, and advises the Corporation mainly through its visiting committees which evaluate the University. The Corporation's sudden interest in governance shows its concern over the Board's movement toward an activist role in the University...
...Activist Gladys Gifford, a member of the city board charged with over-seeing development in Harvard Square, called this argument "naive, just whistling Dixie." The T cannot get people out of their cars, she said, and giving transportation alternatives for employees will not help shoppers...
...ravaging may be the worst sacrilege ever committed against an Indian site in the U.S. "It was total devastation," says Indian Activist Dennis Banks. "There were bones strewn all over the place." If convicted, the grave robbers face maximum penalties of just $500 and a one-year jail term for "desecration of a sacred object...
...tiny generation of politically aware students which first bit its activist teeth into the Cuban missile crisis and the bloody civil rights struggles in Mississippi and Birmingham became the sometime leaders and spokesmen of the vast and unruly coalition that marched on Washington, disrupted the 1968 Democratic National Convention, and flocked to Yasgar's farm and Haight-Ashbury...
...Francisco, where densely packed office towers have overshadowed the city's natural skyline, voters in November rejected a proposal to build a baseball stadium downtown. In last month's mayoral runoff election, they spoke even more forcefully by overwhelmingly rejecting Establishment Candidate John Molinari in favor of onetime Neighborhood Activist Art Agnos. Meanwhile, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego, along with dozens of other California cities, have passed the most severe growth restrictions in the state's history...