Word: campaigners
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...More recently, Bird Shippers of America launched a campaign against airlines that had qualms about shipping birds in the extreme heat or cold. In 2006, in a petition to Congress, the group noted with outrage that some airlines “refused shipments of day-old chicks when temperatures reach 85 degrees” and called for an end to this impediment, citing “the right to ship live birds...
...Crimson will be grateful for another chance to play its last game of the season, but this one will leave a sour taste in its mouth long after the 2009 campaign is officially over...
...Jones continued his strong freshman campaign with a solid night, racking up 12 kills. Though he had trouble at times serving the ball, Weissbourd made sure that the rookie did not get frustrated...
...list of things that have distracted Dodd from his [Banking] Committee work," says one Republican Senator who has served with Dodd on the committee. "Legislation to regulate the insurance industry and to crack down on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac languished before the committee while he was on the campaign trail. Then Countrywide distracted him from the housing bill, a bill that had to be overhauled by the Obama Administration this week," the Senator says, referring to the Administration's changes to the housing program created by Dodd's bill last summer. The changes, which did not require congressional approval...
Tenzin Losel of International Campaign for Tibet spends several hours each day scouring Chinese websites and blogs for information on the goings-on in Tibet. "It's the internet that has been of most use to us," he says. "We try everything, from Google to Chinese tourist blogs," he says, "Sometimes tourists might reveal, say, how many troops they saw during a visit to Potala Palace. Sometimes Chinese news reports unwittingly let out details such as how China has handled protests." But Chinese authorities have been policing the Net heavily since the protests last March, and many blogs and sites...