"Hedge funds take an activist approach, poking management with sticks, " said Joseph W. Cornell of Spinoff Advisors of Chicago.

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The European Commission's regulators have customarily taken a far more activist approach to competition policy than their American counterparts.

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And so there was a danger for Barack Obama of looking unresponsive, of staying too much on the sidelines, at a time when the public was demanding a more activist approach.

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And one of the points that the President made when he hosted President Elbegdorj in the Oval Office in June is that Mongolia has an activist approach to strengthening democratic principles throughout the world.

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Rumsfeld and his team of neoconservative civilians at the Pentagon favor an activist and often unilateralist approach to advancing America's interests abroad.

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