Word: protested
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Students have repeatedly voiced their disapproval of randomization, but they have been unable to mobilize their support in a larger protest simply because nothing has changed...
...because the Dean is reluctant to spend his last months as Dean of the College in battle with student protesters? Or is it because Jewett hopes to suppress student protest by announcing his decision while undergraduates are submerged in the grind of finals...
Twin national anthems are emblematic of Mandela's Masakhane campaign (masakhane is an Nguni word meaning "Let us build each other") to achieve national reconciliation. The campaign, in part, is an effort by the A.N.C. to end the culture of protest among blacks that the party once encouraged. The results have been heartening. Before the election, 80% of the residents of Soweto, the teeming black township near Johannesburg, refused to pay their electricity bills. Today nearly 70% pay them. In the 1970s Ezekial Morailane, a school-bus driver, began withholding his rent to the Soweto Council for his matchbox house...
...obsession with using wood in his bombs and last week's targeting of the California Forestry Association, which represents logging companies. And in the Times letter, the Unabomber declares that last December's murder of Thomas Mosser, a former executive with the Burson-Marsteller public-relations firm, was in protest against the company's representing Exxon, whose oil tanker fouled Alaska's Prince William Sound in the great oil spill...
...deaths and 1,042 injuries caused by the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, about half the bombing attempts in 1993 were acts of vandalism, 13% were intended as revenge and fewer than 1% were acts of protest...