Word: movement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...codes that have been adapted only require companies to pay the minimum wage, which is often appallingly low and often forces the worker to choose between food and clothing," said Daniel M. Hennefeld '99, a member of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) steering committee...
...that the rules governing first blacks still apply. That is why black parents, including Espy's, admonish their children that they must be twice as prepared--and twice as honest--as their white counterparts if they want to succeed. And why during the glory days of the civil rights movement, activists boasted that they would not swim in the mainstream because it was too polluted. These old strictures, to be sure, were a self-imposed double standard rooted in the gloomy conviction that blacks would never get a fair shake from racist America. But unfair as they were, the precepts...
Only a strong person would defy the iron regime of Kenya's President Moi, and Maathai, 58, fits the bill. An anatomy professor at the University of Nairobi and the first Kenyan woman to receive a Ph.D., she founded the women's Green Belt Movement, which has planted 7 million trees in Kenya and inspired similar efforts around the globe. In 1989 her protests forced Moi to abandon a personal plan to erect a 62-story office tower in a Nairobi park. And in 1991 her activism became a political force when she helped start an opposition group called...
This time, though, she may have gone too far. No one is saying whether Maathai encouraged the burning of the bulldozers or overzealous followers acted on their own initiative. She claims that thugs were hired to beat up members of her movement and then destroyed the machinery in a fit of anger when they were not paid what they were promised...
Well, good luck finding the logo, for now. The FSC and others in the certification movement acknowledge that the number of good-wood products carrying the seal is quite small--not even 1% of all wooden wares sold in the U.S. "Certification has not hit the mainstream consumer market yet," says Francis Grant-Suttie of the World Wildlife Fund. "But when key retailers stock these products, consumers will become very aware, very quickly...