Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Living Wage Campaign is fighting for a reasonable hourly rate of pay, as defined by the City of Cambridge, but implicit in its message is a call to treat those who cook our meals, clean our floors and wash our dishes with respect. This respect can take many forms and is all too often absent. It's in things as simple as politely greeting the employee who swipes our cards at meals as well as in refraining from adorning the Quincy House elevator with frozen yogurt, as someone felt the need to do last week...
...Growth is the first goal, and of course that reflects the goal for the current [Capital] Campaign for a substantial increase in the size of the Faculty in that field," he said...
...these schools let out for the summer, Harvard's anti-sweatshop leaders say they are satisfied with the progress of their campaign. They say they do not plan to adopt more radical tactics anytime soon...
...correspondent William Dowell. "For more than 30 years it's mobilized the Pacific Rim countries to stand up to China's regional ambitions." The 17,000-island archipelago is the world's fourth most populous nation, and controls vital sea routes in the Pacific. And that's why the campaign for the June 7 poll, which began on Wednesday, is setting off alarm bells in Washington...
...really national institution holding the whole place together." Despite its built-in near-majority, if the army's party is trounced at the polls it may be persuaded to share power, on its own terms, with the opposition. That's if the election goes ahead: Analysts fear that the campaign could ignite the violent social unrest that has bubbled under the surface since last year -- and if there's one thing the military can't stand, it's civilian chaos...