Word: dumps
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...long and complex battle traces back to the new environmental mood of the 1960s, when the National Park Service decreed that its holdings be kept as natural as possible and the animals be left to fend for themselves. Old dump sites, where the bears had long fed, were abruptly closed. Hotelkeepers were no longer allowed to put food out to attract bears for the amusement of guests. Well meant as it was, however, the new policy had unintended consequences. The bears began looking for food not only in campgrounds but outside the parks as well. They picked off sheep...
...year as an ambassador to the United Nations. But somehow the man who as David Halberstam '55 writes, seemed to specialize in causes rather than jobs" managed to mold a great many lives and shape more than one man's share of history. Best known for initiating the Dump Johnson movement in 1967 a movement whose success stunned political leaders. Lowenstein was also one of the first to take on the evils of racial discrimination in Mississippi and organize students against the war in Vietnam. He was an outspoken opponent of the apartheid regime in South Africa, a lighter...
...organized the New York Coalition for a Democratic Alternative, later to be dubbed the "Dump Johnson" movement. Colleagues warned him that Johnson was not vulnerable to intra-party attack, but Lowenstein thought otherwise. He started the movement before he even had a candidate lined up for 1968. First he asked his old friend Robert Kennedy to oppose the President Kennedy asked for time to think it over...
Acting on a notorious dump...
Cities and towns have become fed up with the double dealing of many private operators. The people of Brookline awarded a contract to the Time-Mirror Company which, even as it was signing the contract, was negotiating to dump the franchise into the lap of Cablevision, the company owning the Boston franchise. This is one reason why Brookline is now looking at public ownership...