Word: backlashers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country, even with generous infusions of foreign credit, can hope to achieve the four modernizations simultaneously. Sooner or later, the experts believe, the Peking leadership will have to set some tough priorities, which inevitably means disappointing some claimants to the country's limited resources and risking an angry backlash. Beyond that, Teng and his cohort face a psychological problem in inspiring the masses. Having suffered through years of polemical warfare, many workers have become cynical about the system and are immune to exhortations and slogans. Middle-level officials, on whom Teng counts to translate his policies into action, constitute...
...campaign finance law. Formed by business, labor and a host of other special interest groups, PACs had contributed more than $60 million at the mid-point of the campaign, as compared with spending a total of $23 million in the last presidential election. There were some signs of a backlash against the growing influence of the PACs. Wisconsin Governor-elect Dreyfus singled them out for special obloquy in his rambunctious quasipopulist campaign against the special interests...
...agreeing that the volatile issue of women's ordination ought to be decided by each national church. By taking that position, observers thought, the English Anglicans were foreshadowing approval of the bitterly disputed proposal. The lead had already been taken by Canada, New Zealand and Hong Kong with little backlash. But the U.S. cast a shadow: after a close pro-ordination vote for women in 1976, the church suffered an embarrassing schism when angry conservatives left to form a renegade Anglican Catholic denomination...
...farms, against a standing army). But the days of Jefferson and Jackson were long over and the once infant country now grappled with the more complex issues of corporate dominance and the contradictions of capitalism. Radical faddism for all its short term benefits served more to fuel the conservative backlash than accomplish any real change...
There was dismay, too, that Vorster was bowing out at the very moment when his brand of pragmatism was most needed. The Namibia decision was seen as a kind of backlash by Cabinet elders against what they regarded as U.N. highhandedness. The reasons given for the turnaround on the U.N. plan convinced no one. Pretoria, it was now clear, was not about to let SWAPO come to power, even in free elections. That means a long-term military commitment by South Africa in Namibia?and a dilemma for the U.S. and Britain, who will face pressure to punish South Africa...