Word: backlashers
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...need high oil prices--countries such as Indonesia that could, as Gore warned last winter, reduce output in response. So the U.S. is treading carefully, describing its plan as a "temporary, precautionary, internal transfer of oil." Clinton and Gore hope that diplomacy has now succeeded in preventing an OPEC backlash, while also sending the signal that America is prepared to take concrete action to lower the price of oil. On Saturday the Venezuelan oil minister, Ali Rodriguez, the current OPEC president, spoke in support of the release...
That's changing. The children are grown now, and a number are speaking up, telling stories of pain that didn't go away the moment they turned 18 or even 40. A cluster of new books is fueling a backlash, not against divorce itself but against the notion that kids somehow coast through it. Stephanie Staal's The Love They Lost (Delacorte Press), written by a child of divorce, is part memoir and part generational survey, a melancholy volume about the search for love by kids who remember the loss of love too vividly. The Case for Marriage by Linda...
...opposition and outside groups said Kostunica was favored by well above the 50 percent required to declare a first-round victory. But either way, the size of the opposition vote appears to have discouraged Milosevic from fraudulently claiming a first-round victory, for fear of sparking a popular backlash...
...Believe the Hype" Public Enemy Any number of PE tracks could be counted as the most important, but my favorite is this one because it's a stunning preemptive strike on the inevitable media backlash against the band and hip-hop in general...
...that point Bush believed his mud-free, high-road approach was working for him--which it was. He was leading in the polls, killing Gore in key states and steadily building his strength among women, independents and other swing voters. Why spend the money and risk a backlash when everything was going just great...