Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Members of Harvard's Chicano students organization, Raza, today begin a two-day fast in support of the United Farm Workers' (UFW) boycott of California grapes treated with pesticides...
...protest, designed to draw attention to the rising incidence of cancer in areas of heavy pesticide use, is part of a nationwide relay effort, in which celebrities, politicians and students take turns fasting. UFW President Caesar Chavez began the fast this summer with a 36-day hunger strike before passing the protest effort to the Rev. Jesse Jackson...
Rossi says that the committee proposed a cap on the number of liquor licenses and the number of fast-food operations. "If you go back five or six years, neighborhood stores went out of business and were replaced by fast food places. We want to reverse that," Rossi said...
...face of tuition increases that are fast outpacing inflation, prestigious universities such as Harvard are being asked to justify the exorbitant costs of higher education. In the propaganda the College releases (in the form of an admissions guide to prospective applicants), the presence of what is "by common consent" one of the world's finest faculties is prominently cited. "Almost every member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is both a teacher and a scholar," it goes...
...soiree. While the featherbrained, steel-hearted hostess is lamenting lost social lions and lopsided lobster aspic, she fails to see that her daughter's impending marriage is on the shoals and that her husband's shipping business, the source of all the family's careless rapture, is sinking fast...