Word: protested
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...protest followed the release on Friday of the "Independent University Initiative," a yearlong study of worldwide apparel manufacturing conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers. The report has been criticized by some for its reliance on information gathered by a for-profit corporate monitor...
Despite their discontent, the protesters chose to influence alumni with pamphlets rather than noise. The protest was timed to coincide with the reunion event, which gave alumni the opportunity "to discuss with top administrators concerns they may have with Harvard," according to Jane H. Martin...
...part, CID operates, along with countless other centers at the University, at the crucial points of intersect between teaching, research and policy. In this context, your protest against University "institutions that...have a distinctly non-academic purpose" seems to imply that you believe Harvard should strive to be more of an ivory tower. A novel position, certainly...
Well, someone is likely to protest, if this is supposed to be history, why is it presented as a novel? That is, as far as it goes, a fair response. Short of a longstanding personal friendship with the author, readers of this book have no way of determining whether any of the people and events in The Family Orchard have any historical reality or, for that matter, any genuine connection to the real Nomi Eve. But she anticipates this question of authenticity and announces her answer at the beginning: "I believe that fiction is formed truth. I believe that history...
Fears of antiabortion protests kept Roussel Uclaf, the French company that developed mifepristone, from trying to enter the American market. Instead, the company donated rights to the drug to the Population Council, a New York City-based nonprofit research organization. The council conducted the clinical trial of mifepristone, but needed a drug-company partner to handle manufacturing, advertising and distribution. Again, fears of protest--or worse--intervened, with drug behemoths refusing to touch the controversial pill. The council spent a year searching before it chose Danco, a company started expressly to handle mifepristone...