Word: affronted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only one specific proposal in the Bush speech inspired a fusillade of partisan attacks: the President's efforts to redeem his campaign pledge to slash the tax rate on capital gains from 33% to 15%. Like Dukakis in last year's campaign, congressional Democrats lambaste the idea as an affront to fairness. "I'm not going to tell the wage earners in Chicago that they should pay a higher tax rate than stockbrokers," thunders House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski. There is evidence to support this equity argument: currently, 70% of all capital gains are claimed by taxpayers...
...most Jewish groups oppose the displays. Says Sam Rabinove, legal director of the American Jewish Committee: "We're all in favor of menorahs and creches, but not in public buildings." Mainstream Christian groups agree. "We consider the display of a Christian religious symbol by a municipality to be an affront to persons of other faiths or of none," says Dean Kelley, director for religious liberty at the National Council of Churches. "As for a menorah, two wrongs don't make a right." Others insist that religiously inspired symbols should be permitted when they reflect U.S. tradition. "As long...
...long as Congress retains its current, sweeping powers over the city, "home rule" will remain an affront to the democratic rights of every District citizen, Black or white. And as long as the Barry administration continues to betray the trust of the city's residents, the prospects for any effective self-representation in Congress will remain bleak...
...choosing Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen to share space on his campaign button, Dukakis took a deeply calculated risk, an atypical gamble. Bentsen is not a shoo-in to win Texas, George Bush's adopted state. He could hurt the ticket by being perceived as an affront to the blacks and progressives who backed Jesse Jackson and by sullying the PAC-free sheen of the squeaky-clean Dukakis. And though he is greatly respected in the corridors of the Capitol, Bentsen does not top the list when people daydream about the ideal President of the United States...
...women cope with these conflicts? Chicago's Frenkel believes professional women must stop taking another woman's success as a personal affront. "They have to separate out business from personal issues," she says. For some women, that's impossible, as Laura Srebnik, 33, a Manhattan computer educator, discovered when she suddenly found herself supervising a "dear friend" at a political lobbying group. The friend, she says, became hostile, talked about her behind her back and then quit. The parting explanation, says Srebnik, was "that I had become one of 'them' " -- the power structure. For some women in the workplace, that...