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...bold move has prompted a backlash from conservative Christians who support the administration's opposition to the Kyoto accords. Last week, 22 evangelicals, including James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, and Charles Colson, founder of Prison Fellowship ministries, wrote the National Association of Evangelicals, an umbrella group that represents 30 million Christians, demanding that it back off from supporting measures to curb global warming...
...can’t rest on the assumption that equality is here to stay,” Friedan said at the IOP in 1980. “I don’t want to see a generation of lonely, tired, bitter women in the next few years in backlash against what I have worked so hard for,” she added...
...Such shockingly careful behavior is almost certainly a backlash to the shockingly egregious instances of expense-account excess that have come to light in recent years. In one case, brokers hoping to win more business from Fidelity Investments treated one of the firm?s traders to a lavish bachelor party, including private jet travel, female companionship and, yes, dwarf tossing, not necessarily in that order. The hosts expensed it. Last year, the CEO of Savvis Communications resigned in the wake of a $241,000 charge to his corporate card during an evening with business associates at a strip club...
...population that is 25% Hispanic, including legal and illegal kids. At East Hampton High School, new students who don't speak a word of English drop in so frequently that the school has developed a two-week crash course in basic phrases and American culture. There are signs of backlash from local taxpayers. A $90 million construction bond meant to alleviate overcrowding in East Hampton schools was rejected by voters last June, and some locals attribute the defeat to anger at the perceived costs of educating the kids of immigrant workers...
...earn, the downward pressure on wages and jobs worldwide is likely to continue. Just last week, Ford announced it will lay off up to 30,000 workers and close 14 plants in the U.S. in a huge restructuring to shore up its finances. Such drastic steps are feeding a backlash against globalization that's of growing concern to the panelists. "There's a win-win depiction of globalization that the world doesn't buy," Roach said. Added Tyson: "I worry that there are many, many voices who feel they are being harmed by globalization. In the U.S. I can find...