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...perceptions that we've gotten are that students are against the war," Dure said. "There has not been a pro-war backlash...
Such a special-interest party could control the balance of power in Israel's splintered parliament -- and lead to a backlash from established voters. The first signs of resentment are already apparent. Last month the Histadrut labor federation virtually shut down the country for two days to protest government measures intended to raise money for immigration. Nonetheless, the 1991 budget earmarks $6.15 billion for absorption, nearly as much as for defense, and imposes a 5% income-tax surcharge and a 2% increase in the value-added tax. For Israelis, many of whom already pay one-third of their average...
...Politics of Rich and Poor by Kevin Phillips. Twenty years ago, the Nostradamus of Washington correctly predicted the emerging Republican majority. Now Phillips foresees a populist backlash to the greedfest of the Reagan '80s. A provocative analysis based on social science and a cyclical view of history...
...going to be interrupted. We can talk disinterestedly about the merits or follies of Bush's gulf policy as long as we do not have to go to war. Bush undoubtedly realizes that putting middle-class lives on the line is the surest way to provoke a political backlash against his Gulf policy; that's why, realistically, the draft is unlikely...
Although it is impossible to assess the troop strength of this grass-roots movement, it is significant enough to spark a backlash. Recently Oprah Winfrey, no slouch of a trend barometer, featured "self-help addicts" on her TV show. Some reconsideration is coming from movement leaders, like Anne Wilson Schaef, author of When Society Becomes an Addict and Co-Dependence: Misunderstood, Mistreated. She now calls the term outdated and argues that it should be modernized with a new concept of relationship -- sex, love or romance -- addiction. Social psychologist and therapist Stanton Peele, author of Diseasing of America: Addiction Treatment...