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Furthermore, releasing the plan reinforces other nations’ fears about America taking unilateral action, possibly provoking an international backlash. If Bush wants the support of the international community, he should continue to place increasing emphasis on Hussein’s most recent offences...
...onslaught is causing backlash in protectionist-minded countries. In Malaysia, which hosts Carrefour among other hypermarkets and soon Tesco stores, the government last month announced a freeze on all applications to build new outlets. Thailand, too, is considering limiting where superstores can be located...
...1990s, an outpouring of grassroots concern for the environment helped stop the so-called Republican Revolution of 1994. The threat of consumer backlash forced Home Depot to forswear the purchase of wood from ancient forests. Utilities and mining companies are less susceptible to direct consumer action, but still pay a price for alienating the public...
...hypocrisy of the U.S. government in its defense of profiling. Not too long ago, the U.S. summoned thousands of presumably innocent men of Islamic origin for "voluntary" questioning. And now, with tens of thousands of airline passengers' lives at stake daily, officials are intimidated by a civil-libertarian backlash and are equating the threat posed by the very same ethnic group with that of a bunch of Irish nuns? Give me a break! RON VINOKOOR Takarazuka, Japan...
...backlash started when gun advocates realized that the model law gave health officials the power to restrict the sale of firearms in an emergency; the CDC quickly dropped the word firearms from its list of materials the government could control. Then religious and pro-family groups rebelled against forced treatment and vaccination; so several states considering the legislation took out provisions making refusal to be vaccinated a misdemeanor. Gay activists feared that the bill might permit states to quarantine people who have HIV or AIDS. The CDC responded by narrowing its definition of a public-health emergency. But the most...