Word: angers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such as the acquisition of E.F. Hutton and faltering earnings. Wall Street, however, was not buying Robinson's triumph: in 10 minutes following the announcement, American Express shares lost $700 million in value. Pressures continued to mount throughout the week as share prices slumped, powerful institutional investors expressed their anger, and three dissenting board members resigned. On Friday Robinson bowed out, citing "the good of the company" and his desire not to impede Golub's autonomy...
Gibson has the most difficult task; the play positions Mary as a perpetual victim. At her best, Gibson achieves a bitter strenth, exposing the emptiness and self-indulgence of Bysshe's idealism. She is least successful when she allows Mary's helpless anger to deteriorate into petulent whining. Her complaints about "the endless, hopeless schemes and dreams" are rendered pathetic rather than biting...
Suddenly, we were the focus of much of the community's anger--an awkward position for many of us at The Crimson. We were the "privileged classes," the "public plunderers," the comfortable. We thought of ourselves as a community watchdog; instead, our readers cast us as a villain...
...Clinton is still struggling to understand the anger, he might want to talk to his own Labor Secretary, Robert Reich. In his book The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism, Reich describes how America's new professional elite has grown ever more distant from the rest of society and disengaged itself from communal spaces, institutions and obligations. "The most skilled and insightful Americans," he wrote, "who are already positioned to thrive in the world market, are now able to slip the bonds of national allegiance, and by so doing disengage themselves from their less-favored fellows...
Some of the callers last week reminded the lawmakers that citizens are required to obey even the laws that they disagree with, or are inconvenient, or are hard to enforce. The anger reflected an impatience with the notion that this generation can pick and choose which rules are worth obeying. "We've excused all the hippie crimes," says Sheila Bihary, a 45-year-old San Francisco lawyer. "Now we've got the yuppie crimes, but these are the same people who used to be hippies...