Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unusual marriage of causes, the Students Against Sweatshops (SAS), the Living Wage Campaign and the Coalition Against Sexual Violence (CASV) joined forces March 9 for a catch-all "Justice for Harvard" rally...
Living Wage Campaign members have had less luck dealing with the administration. Members said they took a "positive step" by meeting with former Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III last spring, but also demanded to speak with higher...
...commanders acknowledge that they've lost control of rogue elements in their ranks. Presumably those elements aren't going to turn into Boy Scouts when a battalion of Australian troops comes marching down the road. So this particular "peacekeeping" operation may end up looking more like a counterinsurgency campaign. Joining the Aussies will be British Gurkhas and troops from Malaysia, New Zealand, France, Thailand, the Philippines and Canada. The U.S. is expected to provide a small contingent in logistical rather than combat roles. But first the international community may have to hold Indonesia to its word...
...candidates know what city they are hoping to run? City council president Lawrence Bell, whom staff members often refer to as the "President," put out a lovely campaign brochure featuring his smiling mug, happy schoolchildren, a calculator and those picturesque Victorian town houses of, um, San Francisco. Bell, 37, may aspire to be Willie Brown, but so far all he has is the suits. Bell dropped a cool $4,323 of campaign money on clothes from Saks Fifth Avenue, which does not have a store in Baltimore. He has plummeted from gregarious front runner to press-shy third-place trailer...
...your broken arms, beaten senseless by your captors and, then, when they offer you the chance to go home, saying no because it would be dishonorable to leave ahead of those captured before you. Despite a 17-year career in Congress, during which he has championed issues such as campaign-finance reform, McCain's defining life experience came three decades ago at a Hanoi prison. And his POW history is the essence of his argument to voters that he possesses the character to be Commander in Chief...