Word: campaigned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University Hall takeover and the strike forced the administration's hand on the ROTC issue. Demonstrations and a letter campaign recently succeeded in twice delaying the implementation of recommendations in the Young Report, which would diminish the discretion of alumni over University policy...
Bush, who promised during last year's campaign to crack down on ethical laxness in government, arranged to lay out his recommendations in a speech at the American Society of Newspaper Editors convention...
...like to think of them as the future public relations flaks and society fundraisers of America. They are the "300 classmates who have volunteered to work on the Senior Gift campaign," as a xeroxed letter from my Senior Gift Co-Chairpersons so nicely said...
Disturbed by his countrymen's fondness for the bottle, Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985 launched an all-out campaign against alcohol. The Soviets raised the legal drinking age from 18 to 21, limited the hours when alcohol could be sold and increased the price of vodka from 4.7 rubles ($7.75) to 10 rubles ($16.50) a liter. But popular resistance has forced Gorbachev to ease up on his crusade, and public drunkenness is on the rise again...
...concrete buildings and connecting tunnels. Nearly half its creaky machine tools and other equipment was built in the 1960s. Yet this factory is the Soviet Union's largest producer of turbine generators for hydroelectric plants and nuclear power stations. Moreover, Elektrosila stands at the forefront of Mikhail Gorbachev's campaign to rejuvenate Soviet industry by freeing factories from the total, stifling control of government bureaucracies...