Word: backlashers
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...backlash was fierce - an enraged crowd gathered in downtown Belgrade, loudly protesting and beating up foreign journalists - but contained: There were never more than about 2,000 people gathered in Central Square in support of Milosevic, in contrast to the hundreds of thousands that had gathered there in the past to demand his ouster. And although President Kostunica had warned that he would resign from his ruling coalition if Yugoslavian law was not observed in the case, he gave no indication that he would allow the issue to force fresh elections...
...Senate passed its version of President Bush's education proposal containing strict new provisions for statewide testing, Education Secretary Rod Paige lunched on rubbery chicken and chatted about urban education at an event hosted by the conservative Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. Asked the inevitable question about the growing backlash against high-stakes state exams, Paige paused for a moment and gave a curiously honest answer: "We know there are some bad tests out there." Then he launched into his spiel about the importance of assessments to ensure that no child is left behind...
Humane Borders was formed after a group of ranchers here and in Texas began taking shots at aliens as they crossed ranch property day and night. Several aliens died in those encounters, and ever since, a backlash against vigilantism has been taking hold. Humane Borders wants to rekindle a long tradition of locals' quietly helping along northward-bound aliens with food, water and sometimes a little cash. Father Robert Carney, a priest in Douglas, Ariz., holds prayer vigils at border-crossing points and often goes out into the desert to dispense toiletry kits and water bottles to people crossing over...
...kitchen table last year to fill out the Census form, we reported as one of the 7.2% of American households headed by a single mother. I've been a single mother for so long that I've stopped thinking about it, but now that the numbers are out, the backlash has begun. We are dysfunctional. Our home is broken. We are at risk and vulnerable. America is going to hell in a handbasket, and we are holding the basket--confounding the eternal American happy snapshot of what a family is supposed to look like...
...other hand, conservative Republicans might see the Jeffords brush-off as a reason to mobilize; 2002 may find them energized and ready to fight. And what the Republicans may try to do is redirect any backlash across the aisle by painting the Democrats as the party in control...