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...moves into such recession-vulnerable businesses as real estate and automaking. As profits went into a tailspin during the past six months, Smith sought to raise fresh funds with a new stock issue. But word leaked to the press, and shareholders feared a dilution of their stock. The investor backlash inspired the company's board to dump Smith. Such quick response to shareholder unrest is unusual in Britain but catching on fast. Still, Smith will be paid more than $500,000 a year until mid-1993. Some American traditions are less unpleasant than others...
...most bitterly controversial social policies in the U.S. Some whites have opposed the idea from day one. Others initially accepted the concept of social justice but now argue that racial preferences have gone on long enough and ask whether minorities expect special treatment in perpetuity. Beyond the white backlash is a growing body of dissent, or at least disquiet, among blacks -- including some who have benefited directly from affirmative action...
...position to benefit from preferential admission." In response, some scholars wonder whether socioeconomic class ought to augment race, or even replace it, as a criterion in affirmative action. Proponents say that would be fairer and, in a society of limited resources, more effective. They add that it might diminish backlash -- especially if preferences went to poor whites as well...
...disorder is known as the Token Black Syndrome. According to Price Cobbs, co-author of Black Rage, TBS often afflicts blacks who were the first of their families to graduate from college or land a high- paying job. TBS has become more widespread in recent years, as a white backlash against affirmative action has swept across the nation. On campuses and in the workplace, the prevailing view is that blacks are not required -- and are unable -- to meet the same standards for admission and promotion as whites...
...organization was contained in the impending union treaty: it would loosen Moscow Center's control of KGB units in the republics and affect sensitive issues like security budgets. By last winter some of the KGB's top officers were in the forefront of a conservative backlash, spearheading a campaign against "economic sabotage" that singled out the developing free-market sector as a special target. Speaking before a secret session of the parliament in June, Kryuchkov lambasted Gorbachev's entire program as a product of the CIA's designs for "pacification and even occupation" of the Soviet Union...