Word: protesters
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...tighten controls on GM organisms. Japan needs 16 million tons of corn a year to satisfy demand, and imports 95 percent of its supply from the United States. With the emergence of genetically modified genes in American grain, Japanese companies were extremely reluctant to buy American corn. In protest of shoddy export controls, Japanese companies boycotted American corn until the American government promised more effective inspection techniques...
...students' protest ended successfully as their posters were allowed to stay up over the weekend, pending discussions today with the official, Science Center events coordinator John Mather...
Ultimately, Halpern and Stoll said, their protest changed Mather's mind. After the group of PSLM members assembled in front of the poster at 4:45 p.m., the deadline for the display's removal was moved back...
Kennedy School student G. Imani Duncan said the protest was "an issue about morality, or lack thereof...
Harvard students in particular should protest, Taylor said, because the University owns about millions of dollars of Pfizer stock...