Word: protested
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...quarter to a third in the $70 billion the Administration's proposed energy tax is supposed to raise over the next five years. That amount would be made up by cuts in Medicare spending. Administration officials note that the American Association of Retired Persons mobilized little effective protest when the Administration proposed slashing $50 billion from Medicare and imposing a means test on some Social Security subsidies...
...perform them again. "I think a lot more private physicians would quietly give RU 486 in their practices," says Susan Hill, head of the National Women's Health Network. "It wouldn't happen overnight, but if they felt it was safe and they weren't going to be protested every day, I think they would start offering it to their patients . . . It's a lot easier to protest 400 clinics than 10,000 doctors...
...return, Harvard asked for several concessions: The unions forfeit their right to strike or protest the work; union workers also give up the increase in wages usually paid on night shifts; and, among other concessions, workers take a 10 percent pay cut on all renovation work covered by the pact...
...been a unifying figure for organization and meetings on that issue, and he has also been prominent in the recent debate over the invitation of Gen. Colin L. Powell to speak at Commencement. This spring, he wrote a letter to President Neil L. Rudenstine and spoke out at student protest meetings...
Throughout the months-long Powell debate, campus liberals have remained strangely silent. Instead of trying to rally around the issue, blanket liberal groups like the College Democrats have placed the burden of protest on smaller special-interest groups such as the BGLSA...