Word: activists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that on any given morning, a President may have to wrestle with Mexico, Medicaid and Microsoft. Reagan could afford to be more full of principle than policy detail because his whole view of government was that it should do as little as possible; a candidate like Bush, with an activist agenda, is bidding for a job that comes with much more homework...
Nearly 30 years later, Kenneth E. Reeves '72 has diverged from the typical Harvard path, though. Entering his sixth term on the Cambridge City Council, Reeves is an avowed liberal and a political activist...
...joined in the activist currents of his time, speaking out against the Vietnam War and protesting segregation...
...huge potential obligation for U.S. taxpayers." How's that? Cohn says the new bill will encourage concentration of financial power in a few hands, any one of which could topple the system if it failed--forcing a government bailout. He has strong support from the likes of consumer activist Ralph Nader...
PETA and other large animal rights organizations have tremendous resources, largely from well-meaning contributors who see themselves as being friends of animals. But contributors need to question where their money is actually going. Does the group tacitly condone activist violence? Many groups encourage acts of extremism to advance the movement's agenda, even while remaining less than outspoken on the issue. These groups maintain their innocence when violence occurs, an unfortunate example of the movement's duplicity--where one hand washes the other, yet neither comes clean...