Word: campaigners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going to wait six months to start a corporate campaign," Early said...
...minute interview with TIME last week, Doi set out her agenda for the coming months. She called on the L.D.P. to dissolve the lower house and hold new elections. She planned to act on demands by voters to strengthen the lax laws on political ethics and campaign contributions that allowed the Liberal Democrats to peddle influence with near impunity. As for relations with its chief ally, she said Japan has given in to U.S. demands too often. Washington, she said, "can't just bring requests to Japan in order to resolve its own deficits. We should agree to disagree...
...Mexican accord is the first concrete result of U.S. Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady's four-month campaign to break the impasse on Third World debt by persuading commercial banks to accept some cuts in the principal or interest rates of their loans. Brady's predecessor, James Baker, whose 1985 debt plan provided for no such relief, had failed to ease the problem. With the Mexican accord in hand, Brady hopes that similar agreements between the banks and other developing countries may soon be worked...
...bring progress to the sleepy Georgia town. Local whites, fearing that black control might result in higher taxes, went to court to block the election, but Gresham prevailed. Now in her second one-year term, Gresham has embarked on such civic projects as installing streetlights and a beautification campaign...
Such delusions are an inevitable consequence -- and a cause -- of a decade of willful denial of the realities of white-black relations. Race remains near the surface of American life, but it is almost always publicly viewed through narrow prisms: a legal wrangle over affirmative action, a political campaign, an isolated incident of racial violence. Sharp disagreements about the origins and implications of the alarming growth of the black underclass and fears of drug-related crime have widened a gulf of mutual incomprehension between the races. Even in private discourse, whites and blacks have lost the capacity to talk...