Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saundra Graham is a tried and true progressive.She is the cutting edge of political change. She broke up the 1970 Harvard Commencement to protest Harvard expansion which threatened local residents. She stood beside members of HUCTW during their strike and their fight to unionize...
...future isn't about scolding your friends who support George Bush. The future is getting involved now. Your write-in sticker vote for Saundra Graham will make a difference in her fight to keep a strong, progressive voice in the Legislature...
...after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Thompson says he chaired the Cambridge Black Citizens Committee (CBC) that formed to fight local racism. At that time, he says, "Blacks were not allowed to ride in police cars," and Thompson worked with James Vaughnberg of the CCA to integrate police cars...
...problem. As a Governor and a politician, he embodies the search for consensus, for mediation. He stands for "partnerships," an idea that is as far from traditional populism as Brookline is from Kansas. During the primaries, he scorned Dick Gephardt's populist campaign theme of "It's your fight too." Gephardt's specter of $48,000 Hyundais, Dukakis suggested, pandered to an American xenophobic streak by railing against foreign companies. Now, however, Dukakis is showing a commercial featuring a Japanese flag. His slogan "I'm on your side" is Gephardt Lite...
Federal regulators are bound to fight the defection in order to discourage other healthy S and Ls from attempting to follow suit. A mass desertion could bankrupt the FSLIC fund and saddle taxpayers with the expected $50 billion to $100 billion bill for rescuing the savings industry...