Word: vocals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...victory in part to his willingness to pick up the mantle of antidrug crusaders after his party's leading candidate, Luis Carlos Galan, was gunned down last August by drug-cartel assassins. Thrust unexpectedly into the limelight at the urging of Galan's family, Gaviria emerged as the most vocal of the candidates against the narcotraficantes. "I am a supporter of extradition," says Gaviria, but he wants to use it only as a "last resort...
...recent months, several conservative campus organizations, ranging from the Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality (AALARM) to Peninsula to the executive board of the Harvard Republican Club, have launched a vocal campaign against what they describe as a single, univocal campus left. Concentrating their attacks on gay rights and women's rights, these groups have sought to portray themselves as embattled crusaders for morality in a spiritual wasteland...
...both writings and speeches, Bok has taken a vocal stance in defining the role of the activist university. As he sees it, it is an institution of higher learning's duty not only to study society but to help make it better...
...benefit screening of the film Cry Freedom last night, vocal figures in the South African anti-apartheid movement said the government said the government's recent reforms do not make divestment by Harvard or other American colleges unnecessary...
...then, and is now coming to a head. Helms' pressure has already forced the NEA to make arts-grant recipients pledge that they will do nothing obscene or indecent on Government money. Sometime in June the NEA's reauthorization and funding bills go to the House floor, where a vocal ultra- conservative rump, led by California Republican Dana Rohrabacher, will attempt to abolish the agency. Since the House will probably not go along -- George Bush has declared that he would not support such a bill -- the issue will come down to a fight over the further restriction of "obscene" content...