Word: backlashers
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...have some clearly irreconcilable differences--Iraq and Kosovo, in particular. At home millions of Russians are souring on the U.S. A U.S. Information Agency poll found that 75% of Russians believe the U.S. is "using Russia's current weakness to reduce it to a second-rate power." The domestic backlash may mean the U.S. is on the brink of losing its once close relationship with the Russian leadership...
...Early in the society's life, it flourished in spite of occasional squalls of controversy. There was dissension from some professors who didn't like its secrecy and exclusiveness, as well as backlash from students showing concern about the influence "Bones" was having over Yale finances and the favoritism shown to "Bonesmen." The essay explains: In October of 1873, Volume 1, Number 1, of The Iconoclast was published in New Haven. It was only published once and was one of very few openly published articles on the Order of Skull and Bones...
...surprising backlash has developed. For starters, sporting a big dividend yield on turn-of-the-millennium Wall Street is like going to school with a KICK ME sign stuck to your back. You'll probably get pummeled. Investors want growth and capital gain. Period. That's apparent in today's fury to own money-losing, dividendless Internet and other tech stocks. Meanwhile, there is some question whether the rash of REITs will smooth the real estate cycle as advertised. The theory goes like this: with many real estate companies dependent on stock sales to fund projects, Wall Street becomes...
...libraries and lecture halls, the first rumblings of a backlash against users of this seemingly harmless piece of technology are being heard...
...next morning that campus opinion turned against the administration, when then-president Nathan M. Pusey '28 showed that his own judgement was even worse than that of the student activists by sending in Cambridge cops at the break of dawn to remove protesters from the building. Without this backlash, the tactics used by SDS could very well have doomed their cause--a possibility current protesters dabbling in confrontation should keep in mind...