Word: environmentalists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parties at the Metro. What Coors has not advertised is a record of discriminatory hiring practices, abusive treatment of employees, hazardous waste dumping and even outright racism that makes it one of the most dispicable companies in the country. Coors' activities have prompted a boycott by many labor, minority, environmentalist, and women's groups nationwide. That boycott deserves the support of the Harvard community...
...living poet, took the opportunity to accept belatedly a 1984 honorary degree from Oberlin College, where he inveighed against "barbarians of every age," and intoned: "For an artist trueborn/ revolt is second nature:/ he is both tribune/ and troublemaker." Meanwhile, Yevtushenko has been traveling across the country performing an environmentalist "Concert for the Earth" with American Jazzman Paul Winter. Last week both men of Soviet letters were in New York City for a special reading and concert at Carnegie Hall that expressed their shared hopes for peace. Says Yevtushenko: "The trouble with people who can push the button is that...
When Kopp entered politics in 1970, Swiss women were still a year away from being granted the right to vote in nationwide elections. A member of the conservative Radical Democratic Party, Kopp has nonetheless backed environmentalist and women's causes that are unpopular with many of her party's leaders...
...then, the belief that the worst is over? "Mostly instinct," said Mondale in a campaign-plane interview with TIME. "I think the crowds are more excited. I think I'm getting my arguments across." He referred to an endorsement by the Sierra Club, the first in that environmentalist organization's 92-year history. He also pointed to the success of his running mate, Geraldine Ferraro, in getting Chicago's feuding Democrats, Mayor Harold Washington and Councilman Edward Vrdolyak, to share a platform with her in a display of party unity. Said Mondale: "I think that means something...
...University now faces an investigation by the New York Attorney General to see if its attempt to keep the endowment, which is linked to the forest, is legal. And Stillman's son and another Hudson Valley environmentalist are threatening a lawsuit if the University doesn't back down...