Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protest was directed against the management's new policy of not serving high school students stopping by on their way home from school...
Nevertheless, many low-quality and hazardous goods find their way into the marketplace; too much is overpriced, and too little works right. Consumer protest groups, often led by women, have been organized in many states. Longtime consumer activists profess amazement that the public has waited so long to fight back. Until lately, amateur, part-time buyers have felt unequal to challenging professional, full-time sellers. Says Peter Drucker, author of The Age of Discontinuity: "We have been a very patient people by and large. Now people are fed up, and 1 do not blame them...
...protest began at 8 a.m. yesterday morning when about 100 black students marched through the Yard to the construction site for Gund Hall, which will be the location of the new offices of the School of Design...
...jail sentences-which are often for 30 days-would have put most of the OBU members in jail at a time when they have vowed to escalate their protest...
...Yale is ultimately suspended, or even banished from NCAA and ECAC competition. Harvard and the Ivies should also withdraw, in protest, until the NCAA returns to carrying out the functions for which it was intended...