Word: campaigned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Security Council staffer, as he claimed in his defense, following orders when he led a secret effort to provide assistance to the Nicaraguan rebels in defiance of congressional bans? Were present and former Government officials, including Ronald Reagan and George Bush, involved in a cover-up of the covert campaign? Why were documents suggesting that the former and current Presidents were more deeply enmeshed in the affair than either has acknowledged not given to congressional investigating committees...
...long after oil began spilling from the tanker Exxon Valdez in Alaska, anger started welling up in Mike Siegel. From his base in Seattle, Siegel launched a national anti-Exxon campaign: distributing bumper stickers, organizing picket lines and traveling to the company's New York City headquarters to dump 2,000 protest letters on the president's desk...
...defining event for these radio activists was the battle early this year over the proposed congressional pay raise. Inspired by outraged callers, a number of talk hosts initiated letter-writing and phone-in campaigns, and kept in touch with each other to exchange information and plot tactics. The radio campaign was widely credited with helping scuttle the pay increase. Now several of these hosts are leading the protests against Exxon's slow cleanup of the Alaska oil spill, collecting cut-up Exxon credit cards and advocating a company boycott. More such crusades may be in the offing. Williams, of Boston...
Though we support the right of Alumni Association officials to actively campaign for their own candidates for the Board of Overseers, we do question the use of personal attacks and comments gratuitously linking the opposition with communism by men who are paid officials of the University or who have been appointed to represent all University alumni...
While opposition candidates claimed true victory and protested vigorously against General Noriega's brutal campaign, they have objected, just as vigorously, to the possiblity of an American military intervention, a possibility that George Bush has refused to rule...