Word: protested
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those who can't seem to get enough shear madness, but have had enough of the "Contract with America," the Women's Caucus for Art has a solution. The Caucus is sponsoring a nation-wide "art project" to protest proposed cuts to National Endowment for the Arts funding...
...Having made that as a commitment, I decided I would give some portion of my life on a continuing basis to exercising social responsibility," the professor says of his protest. He seems to have followed through with this resolution. In conversation, Mendelsohn comes across more like a political activist with an interest in the natural sciences than the other way around...
Conservative social architects would challenge (no doubt discreetly) the wisdom of making special dispensations for beggars in favor of passively causing their extinction. Other objections could come from merchants, who would prefer the simplicity of credit transactions to the tedium of processing coupons. Some merchants might protest against honoring the coupons at all; that fancy French restaurant probably doesn't want to serve the poor bum who saved up hundreds of food coupons for one glorious meal. In addition, the federal government would have to print up unforgeable coupons (though in much smaller numbers) just as it had previously printed...
Members of the Debate Council, who have hosted the event since 1974, selected the above resolution. They said concerns that deaf activists would protest the topic proved unfounded...
...KAWAS FERNANDEZ, 48, fervent Honduran ecologist who antagonized peasants and developers alike in pressing for effective forest management and preservation of nature parks; by an unknown gunman; while she sat in her living room in Tela. Two days before she was killed, she had led a peaceful demonstration to protest the National Agrarian Institute's plan to distribute land to campesinos who, she claimed, would sell it to foreign investors. Police are focusing their investigation on two peasant groups. DIED. JAMES MERRILL, 68, American poet who chronicled experiences and emotions from his own life with intricately crafted, eclectic blends...