Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Buthelezi's political base is the 1 million-strong Inkatha, the Zulu movement he leads. On May Day, when militant black union leaders who favor divestiture spearheaded a nationwide walkout, Buthelezi staged a rally to launch a new labor organization to challenge them. "Why are they so persistent to push disinvestment even with the knowledge that we blacks, whom they purport to be helping, are the ones who will suffer most?" he asks...
Finally, even SASC's purely moral arguments for divestment are often weak and inconsistent. The activists push it on the premise that it is intrinsically immoral for Harvard to invest in a nation whose regime is based upon so fundamentally wrong a premise as that of South Africa. That may very well be so. Yet, when asked why they do not also favor and agitate for divestment from other despicable regimes--the Soviet Union, Chile, etc.--the typical response is that divestment from South Africa is more attainable and holds out greater prospect for change than divestment from other regimes...
...shrewd Louisiana Democrat who for 37 years in the Senate has played the fine print of the tax code like a fiddler at a fais-dodo; Majority Leader Robert Dole, who once argued that tax reform was a lower priority than deficit reduction but who now promises to push through the measure on the Senate floor next month; and Bill Bradley, the New Jersey Democrat who for five years has been building the case for reform. Lobbyists representing interests ranging from real estate syndicators to restaurant owners vowed to descend on Capitol Hill to do battle. Acknowledging that brutal struggles...
...Although Allen belts out the songs and adapts capably to Fosse's jagged, staccato movements, she utterly lacks Charity's doormat vulnerability. Unless she has that quality, '80s audiences may find it hard to believe in, let alone respect, a woman so ready to let men push her around. -- W.A.H...
...demonstration of black power came just a week after the government rescinded the hated pass laws, which had restricted black movement in the country for more than 70 years. That victory inspired many activists to push even harder for the complete dismantling of the apartheid system. In Washington, the Rev. Leon Sullivan, whose well-known guidelines for U.S. corporate conduct in South Africa have encouraged companies to remain in the country and fight apartheid from within, has urged corporations to push even harder. Said Sullivan: "Our signatories have to do more to support the rights of blacks to work where...