demonstration. >> i call that the inside/outside strategy. >> reporter: strategy, enormously successful to get the fda to loosen new regulations for aids. now they are trying to force scientists to work faster to develop and test new treatments. in the past, scientists have strongly resisted such pressure. actup thinks the scienthcts can be made to listen. robert bazell, nbc news, bethesda. >> may of 1990, that report. a few months earlier, in the fall of 1989, seven members of the same protest group had chained themselves to the balcony at the new york stock exchange and infurled a banner that said sell welcome. they made azt, only aids drug, technically at a cost of $10,000 a year in 1989 dollars. new york stock exchange had