Word: angers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wished for more "verbal closeness" with their male partners. The most frequently cited (77%) cause of women's anger: "He doesn't listen." Indeed, 71% of women in marriages of unspecified "long" duration said they have given up and no longer even try to draw their husbands...
...explain the anger in Hite's survey? And, for that matter, why the more general pattern of anti-male literature at a time when, by many measures, women's lot has radically improved? "What has happened," offers Gloria Steinem, feminist author and a founder of Ms. magazine, "is that expectations have increased as reality has gotten better." The balance of power in relationships used to be about 60-40, she contends. "Now we're trying for 50-50. You have to point out the problems, and that's what some of these books are doing...
...fields ranging from entertainment and sports to education and public transportation, ultra-Orthodox militants, who make up only about 6% of the country's population, are fighting to impose their religious views on the majority. In the face of that onslaught, many non-Orthodox Israelis have responded with anger and resentment. Warns Uriel Reichman, dean of Tel Aviv University law school: "These things only create hatred of religion. For the vast majority of Israelis, their delight in Jewish tradition is being taken away...
...Shamir tried to ram through a vote to that effect in July, but a handful of Likud members defected and the measure was narrowly defeated. The haredim, however, are likely to continue pressing the issue until they win. If the ultras' position were to prevail, it would provoke widespread anger among U.S. Jews, most of whom belong to Conservative or Reform congregations...
...Japan. The COCOM group, formed just after World War II, jointly agrees on a list of banned technology, but until recently the U.S. has enforced the guidelines much more seriously than most of its fellows. Japan, for example, has only now heightened its export scrutiny, a response to U.S. anger over the Toshiba affair, in which the company's machine-tool subsidiary sold advanced propeller-milling devices to the Soviets...