Word: movement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that faculty support is snowballing, Halpern says he hopes the image of the campaign as a fringe movement may be diminishing, and encourages faculty to stand up in support for their fellow Harvard employees...
...this strategy is going to work, Dole needs more than good trainers and stamina. However fleet her reflexes, broadening the primary base and launching a "movement" take organization and money, two things she has proved slow to build. She also needs to stir the fire when she faces the crowds of curious folks who want to take her measure. So far, too many are coming away underwhelmed by her roving, talk-show routine. But even that conversion may be in the works. In a speech last week, Dole took a playful jab at herself. "Some pundits say that...
...spotlights these endangered products, not so people will avoid them but rather so more will consume them. Already this gourmet prod to the marketplace has helped revive such delicacies as Bagoss cheese, made from the milk of brown Alpine cows, and Slovenian buckwheat. Starting this week, the Slow Food movement, which was launched in Italy and has 70,000 members in 35 countries, will swing through the States in an effort to bolster its U.S. membership...
...movement was founded in 1986 by Italian journalist Carlo Petrini, spurred into action when a McDonald's invaded Rome's historic Piazza di Spagna. "I was alarmed by the culturally homogenizing nature of fast food," he says. In 1989 Petrini drafted a manifesto, ratified in Paris by 15 countries, deriding "fast life, which disrupts our habits, pervades the privacy of our homes and forces us to eat fast food." According to the manifesto, fast life denies mankind its inalienable right to "sensual pleasure and slow, long-lasting enjoyment." To reclaim both, Slow Food, whose symbol is a snail, promotes taste...
Leaders of the Progressive Students Labor Movement (PSLM) said they came away from a meeting with University attorney Allan M. Ryan Jr. and a representative of Price water house Coopers (PWC) on Wednesday still unhappy about the conditions of a deal between the University and the accounting company...