Word: movements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loot, First Chicago discovered the fraud and alerted the FBI, which last week located the money and arrested Taylor and six alleged coconspirators on charges connected with illegal wire transfers. But the embezzlers came tantalizingly close to succeeding and showed how vulnerable banks and their vast computerized cash-movement networks can be to a dishonest insider...
Other arguments for legalization differ widely depending on the speaker. That is hardly surprising, since the trend cannot properly be called a "movement." It is a very unorganized current of thought with adherents from every part of the political spectrum. Some extreme libertarians contend that the Government has no business telling citizens what they may or may not put into their bodies. A much larger group contends that it is hypocritical to ban narcotics while allowing the sale of alcohol and tobacco, two substances that, this group insists, kill far more people by undermining their health and, in the case...
...from the beginning, there were clubwomen with a more ambitious agenda -- to reform not only themselves but society. Over the years they provided the leadership for the suffragist movement, child-labor reform, conservation, temperance and civil rights. "You have to remember," says Karen Blair, assistant professor of history at Central Washington University, "that until 1920 women didn't have the vote, and this was their only way to have a public voice outside the home...
...White radicals cannot speak for everyone anymore," says Ritter. "We cannot have a movement until everyone is brought into the picture...
...question of whether the recent surge in student activism is merely a fad or capable of producing lasting change remains unanswered. "What we are looking at right now might become a new student movement," says Thelwell, who witnessed the beginning of 1960s movement...