Word: backlasher
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...Will there be backlash...
...there's one thing the whole Smart Tags debacle taught us, it's that the new and improved Microsoft is prepared to retreat at the first whiff of consumer backlash. So if you care at all about the right of web designers to use whatever language they like without fear of users being blocked from seeing their efforts, write Microsoft and let them know you'll be thinking twice about purchasing XP. After all, it's a pretty dreary world without a regular shot of Java...
...deputy managing editor; he later became executive editor. In 1971, she made the final decision to publish the Pentagon Papers, a choice that effectively sealed President Nixon?s fate - and her own. Two years later, the Watergate scandal surfaced, and, steeling herself for what appeared to be inevitable political backlash, Graham gave the green light to Woodward and Bernstein?s now-famous series...
...NATO's reluctance to put its foot down in Macedonia is understandable: Confronting Albanian extremism - which the alliance itself appears has identified as the primary source of the current violence there - potentially exposes alliance troops to risks of a backlash both in Macedonia and in Kosovo. And there is no doubt that the Macedonian military's tendency to rain down bombs and shells on villages occupied by the guerrillas will drive many Macedonian Albanians into the arms of the rebels. Yet the absence of any strong disincentive for the guerrillas to continue fighting may be the fatal flaw of NATO...
...climates from coast to coast, seeded, fertilized, doused with water and pesticides, and mowed to within an inch of its life. But in Las Vegas and other communities, the ground is quite literally, if slowly, shifting. Whether because of water restrictions, an increased concern about pesticides or simply a backlash against the unending labor required to keep lawns pruned to perfection, more homeowners are questioning whether the grass's being greener is necessarily a good thing...