Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...name Greenpeace immediately conjures up images of scruffy activists blocking railroad tracks to stop nuclear-waste shipments or challenging whaling ships in rubber rafts. So it's surprising to find in the ranks of this radical green group a button-down business tycoon named Malcolm Walker, who heads Iceland, a British retail food chain with 760 stores and annual revenues of $2.7 billion. But Walker, 53, whose personal fortune of $40 million puts him on the British "Rich List" compiled by the Sunday Times of London, sees nothing incongruous about his consorting with environmental militants. "I wear a suit...
...sicker of spending almost every day of them fund-raising for the next election. The Republican Senate has been squashing this bill for years, and the smart money says 1999 will be no different. Except that McCain will go hoarse trying to make this issue the national hot-button that he?s always dreamed it would be. "I am not in the business of identifying individuals or attacking individuals," he said Thursday, struggling to keep the debate on some sort of high ground. "I am attacking a system. I am attacking a system that has to be fixed." Added partner...
...growth rate of 12.2 percent was down from Harvard's average of 20.1 percent over the last five years. But the world's richest university isn't hitting the panic button...
...ROTC debate typified an emerging trend in campus politics. When it comes to hot-button campus issues, students have, by and large, left the council for issue-specific special-interest groups. And these new groups--the Progressive Student Labor Movement, the Coalition Against Sexual Violence, etc.--seem to have more traction with the administration, demonstrated by their recently won concessions. When Dean Lewis ignores the (supposed) interests of the entire student body to heed the concerns of a small and interested faction thereof, it is evident that student government is no longer the best avenue for influencing the administration...
Navarrette, a student at the Kennedy School and a former Crimson editor, urged candidates to focus on education, the economy and crime, which he termed "mainstream issues" and away from "hot button" Latino issues like immigration, affirmative action, and bilingualism...