Word: backlashers
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...despite being branded an international outlaw and threatened with an economic backlash, Norway insists that the whaling will go on. Its resolve is strengthened by the confidence that other countries may follow: Iceland, which quit the IWC last year over the same issue, says it will resume whaling next summer, ban or no. Japan will abide by the rules for now, but has lobbied the IWC to allow limited whaling. All three nations argue that the current policy is governed by emotion, not rational science. They contend that a careful harvest of relatively plentiful species like the minke is harmless...
...bodyguard. He is said to have turned informant partly for money (the FBI reportedly has recommended that he be given a $250,000 bonus for his help), but largely because he thought terrorist killings were betraying, not furthering, the cause of Islam and were likely to prompt a worldwide backlash against Muslims...
Doubtless, visions of that commercial danced through the heads of Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D.N.J.) and Senator Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.)--both of whom witnessed governors badly bruised by anti-tax backlash...
...chains are capitalizing on a backlash against diet plans that take pounds off but rarely keep them off. "People want their old favorites, and they're questioning the harsh diets more and more," observes Lynne Scott, director of the Baylor College of Medicine's Diet Modification Clinic. Says Lyn Almon, a dietitian at Emory University Hospital: "There are so many mixed messages bombarding dieters that some people are throwing up their hands and going back to their old eating habits. There's a feeling, 'If I'm going to lose the weight and then just regain it, why start...
...appointees as with the Carter appointees). Women's groups are also worried over criticism the pro- choice Ginsburg leveled at the Roe v. Wade decision in a speech last March. She had contended that equal protection, rather than privacy, would have been better grounds and created less of a backlash. The strong reaction surprised her. Says Stanford law professor Barbara Babcock, who had dinner with her shortly after the speech: "She was hurt by people who should have been her friends...