Word: backlashers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This may all seem like water under the proverbial bridge. But don't forget that the Republicans are spending thousands of dollars on negative research about Carter and that Jerry Brown's success in the final primaries might indicate a growing backlash against Carter's fuzziness on the issues and his own past...
...where the party headed by Georges Marchais shares a Programme Commun with François Mitterrand's Socialists. Together, the two leftist parties gained more than 49% of the vote in the 1974 presidential elections. Others, however, believe that an Italian Communist success would only produce right-wing backlash in France...
...convention were to turn to someone who had not gone to the people, then I think that the people would feel that their primary votes had been in vain. It would create a backlash against the primary system. I'll support
...blatant politics of the Palme tax policy upsets many Swedes, however. Worried about a political backlash, Palme's tax officials last week insisted that the 101.2% maximum was an "accident," and it was announced that a "provisional tax revision" was under study. Meanwhile, Bergman has angrily canceled all his film and theater projects in Sweden. Some tax experts are suggesting another way for certain self-employed Swedes to cope: divorce. Swedish husbands, they advise, could divorce their wives, dispatch them abroad, then send them big tax-deductible allowances. Upon reaching retirement age, the couple could be joyfully reunited...
...millenarian pretensions of "the movement." This is not necessarily a dishonorable exercise, although sometimes it is a little too easy, like hunting from a helicopter. But there is a danger in it. A repugnance for the Yippie idiocies of the '60s can too often turn into a backlash against such concerns as clean air, equal rights and the lessening of poverty. Beneath the current indignation about Big Government there can lurk a regressive social meanness...