Word: vocalisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the conference delegates debate whether the world's Malthusian nightmare is lifting or drawing closer to reality, they will also face a challenge from the Reagan Administration. As part of its vocal antiabortion stance in a U.S. presidential election year, the Administration has announced sharp new restrictions on family-planning assistance for any organization or country that sanctions abortion. The impact of the policy change may be substantial: it is estimated that U.S. contributions of $240 million represent nearly one-quarter of total worldwide aid spent on family planning. The Administration will also inject its free-market philosophy into...
...vocal advocate of Mitterrand's austerity policies in the previous Cabinet, Fabius was distrusted by the Communists. The son of a wealthy antiques dealer, the balding Fabius is the polished product of France's best schools. Most important, he is a close confidant of Mitterrand's. "You could not fit so much as a cigarette paper between the President's ideas and the way I carry them out," he said...
...More commonly, the fund is a political lightning rod, in part because it is so centrally involved in painful, eleventh-hour policymaking. "People lose sight of the fact that the alternative would be even worse," says a senior fund official. "I find it illuminating that some of the most vocal critics of the IMF are in countries whose economies continue to deteriorate because they refuse to follow IMF recommendations...
...happening this term, while last term was lackluster in terms of substantive policies," he says. Vellucci, however, is less enthusiastic. Although in age and in style of politics, as well as in general ideological leaning. Vellucci is closer to the conservative bloc than the liberal one, his strong and vocal support of rent control and other housing-related issues caused him to align himself with the liberal camp on many controversial decisions in the past, enabling him to wield considerable power as the council's swing vote...
Headed by the Third World Coalition, an umbrella organization for campus minority groups, a vocal core of student activists raised banners and bullhorns in a series of demonstrations calling for divestiture, affirmative action, and a student voice in faculty decisions...