Word: movement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lure foreign investment, Abdullah advocated liberal policies on trade and the free movement of capital...
...wonder, then, that several council members were surprised to learn that Darling was enthusiastic about getting the voices of activist groups such as the Progressive Student Labor Movement--a collection of liberal students fighting against sweatshops and for a living wage--more involved in the undergraduate council...
...most people try to counter feelings of listlessness with activity, motion, movement. Yuppies seem to take this to an extreme and counter feelings of extreme ennui with extreme activity-i.e. violence; repress your IKEA-fueled angst long enough and it'll explode in your face like a computer at midnight on New Year's Day 2000. Aggression seems truly to be the key to defusing the ticking time-bomb of yuppie angst. This is obvious in Fight Club: the entire movie is centered around the premise that yuppie poster boy Edward Norton finds escape from his micromanaged world only...
...youth movement will be in full effect as all three teams post lengthy rookie rosters, which has not detracted from any of their performances. In fact the young teams have all performed better than expected in their respective leagues...
...Holmes. "But in the past couple of months you?ve had every minister in every pulpit preaching against the lottery, warning that it would link education to gambling - and church people turned out in droves on Tuesday." Not that many of the arguments made by the Alabama anti-lottery movement don't find favor with a wide range of lottery critics across the country. Even though its proceeds go to good causes, they say, such gambling is inherently a regressive tax on the poor, whose comparitive desperation may tempt them to fritter away precious funds for the slim chance...