Word: movement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thought the protest movement was irresponsible, out of control," said Fallows...
...thought the protest movement was irresponsible, out of control," said Fallows...
...recent wave of student activism on campus can trace its success to a number of factors. First, both SAS and the LWC are part of a larger movement that has blossomed on campuses throughout the country. Second, both groups have approached their causes with a degree of sophistication that has been lacking in recent failed activist efforts. The group members know their issues well, they have approached the University with concrete, reasonable demands, and they have combined agitation with a willingness to negotiate...
...Every time a good movement would start-forexample, an anti-Cold War peace movement-a lot ofnoisy radicals would show up," Guntheroth says."Then people would say, 'Oh God, we don't want tobe a part of this...
Psychiatrists started to notice that the drugs brought some awful side effects--facial contortions, blurred vision--and many patients began to refuse them. But "deinstitutionalization," as the reform movement was called, was well under way. Nearly half a million patients were returned to their communities between the mid-'50s and the mid-'80s. The Federal Government never built all the centers Kennedy promised--there are just 740 today--and states didn't take up the slack...