Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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About 400 Boston University professors and students walked out of class yesterday to protest the school's awarding an honorary degree to the controversial chief of the Zulu tribe in South Africa...
...save the family $ business from the clutches of a rival tycoon (Dabney Coleman) by striking a shady deal with the local toxic-waste company. Meanwhile, his randy wife Talon (Teri Garr) roams the farm looking for bedmates; his younger brother Kevin (Anthony Heald) takes a vow of celibacy to protest the killing of sperm whales; an adopted sibling named Tiffany (Valerie Mahaffey) embarks on a search for her real parents; and a mysterious stranger (Gregory Harrison) shows up with his own dark secrets -- not the least of which is why he never wears a shirt...
Normally conservative South Dakotans elected Democrat Thomas Daschle to the Senate mostly in a loud protest against federal farm policy. In the process, they opted for a dramatic generational and political change. Gray-haired James Abdnor, 63, the Republican incumbent whom Daschle defeated 52% to 48%, had been faithful to the Reagan Administration line on almost every issue. "The fighter or the follower" was how Daschle's ads portrayed the choice. Daschle, who looks younger than his 38 years, bucked the Reagan line so consistently as a Congressman that in 1985 he won a 70% rating from the liberal Americans...
...protest was condemned by the school's chancellor, Joseph Duffy...
...support of a colleague's 53-day fast to protest the nuclear arms race, 13 Harvard University professors conducted their own fast yesterday...