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...passed over for promotions, Robertson does very little to discuss the complex problems women at the Times face today. Most of these include problems of subtle discrimination: male-biased career tracks and value systems, family and lifestyle issues and biased definitions of news. Robertson's book is no Backlash; Susan Faludi's book makes a contribution to the current debate over difference and equality which the feminist of today are trying to resolve. Robertson merely tries to make the women in her life, "larger than life"; Robertson is, after all, a Timeswoman. In that respect, she is no different from...
...plan would also hike Medicare premiums for the wealthy, an idea that is certain to provoke protests. In 1988, the last time Congress attempted to make upper-income retirees pay more, a revolt among seniors forced repeal of the catastrophic-care law the following year. Fear of a similar backlash led Bush advisers to drop the idea of reducing tax deductions for company-paid health insurance, a subsidy expected to cost $43 billion this year. Administrators of teaching hospitals, often the care providers of last resort for the poor, are poised to battle Medicaid cuts. They note that even...
...incites a backlash," says Gorton. "Peopleare striking...
...products and compete better," he explains. "Then we'll be in a position to negotiate. Now we're sitting across the table from people who look at us with disdain." Threats are not his style, but he points out that what the Japanese "fear most is a U.S. consumer backlash...
Clinton is "getting a lift now," Kamber continues, "a result of a backlash against the media. But the issue will be back in the fall. When more names surface, Bush will turn the focus to family values. The idea that if Hillary forgives him, the rest of us will, or should, is not how it will play. If the polls are right and the 14% of the electorate who say they won't support a womanizer actually vote against Clinton because of his problems, well half of that percentage is usually the difference in presidential elections. We'd probably have...