Word: activists
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When John Hickenlooper ran for mayor of Denver in 2003, the betting in local political circles was that he should keep his day job, brewing beer. A Democratic civic activist, Hickenlooper was best known for owning the Wynkoop Brewing Co., the city's first brewpub, which he had opened in 1988 and built into a successful restaurant business. He had never run for office, not even for student council of his high school or college, Wesleyan, at which he earned degrees in English and geology. He also seemed a bit eccentric. As a bachelor, he offered a $5,000 bounty...
...University of California, San Francisco, showed, for example, that the average number of partners per month dropped from 5.9 in October 1982 to 2.5 during the same period in 1984. "It's just not cool to be promiscuous," says Los Angeles Art Director Jeff Kerns. Karl Clark, an activist member of Fort Lauderdale's homosexual community, maintains that most people are "no longer willing to play Russian roulette. Safer sex and monogamous relationships have taken root. Unfortunately, it took a long time...
Despite the increasingly vocal public concern, laissez-faire Houston does not appear to be at all ready to enact the sort of comprehensive zoning laws that have helped contain the porn industry in some other cities. After closing down one particularly offensive club, Civic Activist Frank Phelps, 65, said that even though many sex-prone businesses remained in his area, residents could "live with what we've got." The remaining joints, said Phelps, "don't have the hideous signs up, and they don't advertise, and they are down near the freeway, away from the residential area." Translation...
...advertisement begins: "Imagine if the Far Right had veto power over America's judges. They do." This salvo, from the liberal activist group People for the American Way, is aimed at President Reagan and his intensifying drive to create a staunchly conservative federal bench for America to remember him by. Liberals have good reason for concern. To date the Senate has approved 223 of Reagan's meticulously screened appointees, or roughly 29% of federal judges. By the end of his tenure he may top the 50% mark, not a surprising rate for a two-term President. But because...
...income clients and focusing on the wealthy. But the proposals are short on specifics. "We're trying to figure out if this is anything more than a grudge match," says Richard Ferlauto, director of Pension and Benefit Policy at the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, an activist shareholder. Such worries are weighing on the stock, which has been a woeful underperfomer, falling 22% in the past five years, while more focused firms like Bear Stearns and Lehman Bros. have doubled...