Word: backlash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Japan does not liberalize its economy, the U.S. and other nations may well intensify an already strong backlash against Japanese exports. The U.S. restricts imports of Japanese steel and threatens to set quotas on textiles (TIME, July 4). Thailand recently banned imports of Japanese used cars and tires until Tokyo agrees to buy more Thai rubber and corn...
...victors were not all that virtuous and the vanquished not all that guilty. The Impressionists and their heirs have become an academy in their turn, and developed their own excesses. The superrealism of today's pop artists and the brutal clarity of the new realists represent a backlash, which permits one to view the once scorned academics of yesteryear with a new sympathy...
...than a sensualist, and pushed both roles to madness. Today, many of the young (or would-be young) use sexual display or obscene language quite deliberately as shock weapons of protest against "the Establishment." At the same time, those who are affronted by the new license may produce a backlash that could lead to a general mood of repression, social as well as political...
Increases in interest rates have usually been tolerated as a necessary evil in the fight against inflation. Last week, after announcing the fifth rise in the prime rate since December, U.S. bankers were greeted by an uncommon backlash. Criticism of the move came not only from the perennial easy-money advocates but from other responsible sources. Their contention was that the bankers have been just too cavalier about the cost of money...
...backlash against student violence continues to gain strength. In North Carolina, for example, the state legislature is now weighing five bills dealing with campus disorder, with penalties ranging from revocation of scholarships to six months in jail. Connecticut, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin all have legislation pending, and other states are still to be heard from...