Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Spurring such growth is apt to be difficult at a time when the U.S., the World Bank's principal shareholder, is fighting a record budget deficit. Moreover, Conable's activist view is a departure from the laissez-faire climate of Ronald Reagan's Administration. It might have been considered downright heretical until last October, when Treasury Secretary James Baker announced a new official line at a World Bank and International Monetary Fund meeting in Seoul, South Korea...
...Allston state representative, a proud son of the 1970 student activist movement at Boston College, played his campaign by rules that simply didn't work in this media-ridden race. While front-runner Joseph P. Kennedy II was applying the major-league campaign tactics of Uncle Ted to a comparatively minor-league campaign, Gallagher used precepts that he might have learned in little league, where traditional sportsmanship is a larger part of the game...
...headed by Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald, who had personally led the campaign in favor of divorce. It also sealed the country's own marriage to the Roman Catholic Church and set back hopes of a closer alliance with Northern Ireland, the republic's predominantly Protestant neighbor. Said Pro-Divorce Activist Margaret Geaney, choking back tears: "The majority has spoken and said, 'We don't give a damn about...
...Israeli who represented the newspaper Ha'aretz. From Amnesty International, the London-based human rights organization, came reports of three more raids on black churches and the detention of entire congregations. Amnesty International also reported that Zwelakhe Sisulu, a black South African editor and member of a prominent activist family, had been arrested...
...striking down a key provision of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings budget-balancing law on the ground that the Comptroller General, responsible for implementing its trigger mechanism, is not under the executive branch of Government. An unwavering apostle of judicial restraint, he may give pause to conservatives seeking a more activist judicial agenda. As he wrote last year: conservatives "must decide whether they really believe . . . that the courts are doing too much, or whether they are actually nursing only the less principled grievance that the courts have not been doing what they want...