Word: citizens
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...defense of an “obsolete” technology—were unsatisfied with Leer’s defense of coal. “Clean coal is like healthy cancer. I don’t believe it exists.” said Andrew Stern, Vice President of Citizen Advocates for Renewable Energy, which installed wind turbines from which Harvard buys energy credits. However, many audience members said they respected Leer’s pragmatism. “His basic message was that there is an enormous amount of incredibly cheap coal and people are going to exploit that?...
...repeal think that this year, with the governor's support and the commission's verdict still fresh, the bill will make it to the floor for a vote they are confident they will win. "This year we have momentum to move it," says Jane Henderson, director of Maryland Citizen's Against State Executions...
...from participating in the non-lobbying coordination of lobbying efforts for a preset "cooling-off period" of two years. The chief sponsor of that effort happened to be Senator Obama. "Obama was the one who really became excited about the whole idea," says Craig Holman, a lobbyist for Public Citizen, a group that helped write the bill. "We lost that on the House side, initially. It was largely the committee chairmen who didn't want that in there...
...they used force to prevent any of them from returning. Then the new state summarily confiscated their land and property for redistribution to Jews. The remaining Arab population of Israel—now about 20 percent—eventually received formal legal equality, but live in second-class citizen status similar to that of American blacks in the North before affirmative action and the rise of the new black bourgeoisie...
...will be a second-class citizen for the rest of my life ... It affects every penny I have today." - on the fact that her retirement benefits are based on the discriminatory pay she received from Goodyear Tire, Birmingham News, January...