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A pair of activist shareholders are agitating for big changes at travel companies just as spring and summer travel season is about to start.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

Activists in Kent are agitating to switch its City Council from at-large to district representation.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2024

Obi is a Christian from the Igbo tribe in the volatile southeast, where some members are agitating to secede from Nigeria.

From Reuters • Feb. 6, 2023

Now more building owners are agitating for governments to create incentives that will ease office-to-housing conversions.

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2022

At Berlin dark rumors of this intended flight, and actual Arrest of the Crown-Prince, are agitating all the world; especially Lieutenant Katte, and the Queen and Wilhelmina, as we may suppose.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 07 by Carlyle, Thomas