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...staggering figures will probably prompt Kirkland and his cohorts to challenge management authority over pension money very cautiously, out of fear of a backlash. But Barber, co-director of the People's Business Commission, points out that if union efforts were to provoke new legal restrictions on pension investment, "you haven't lost anything." However, he believes such business attempts would fail, in part because state and local governments would regard legal thwarting of union control as raising the threat of eventual federal encroachment onto their own sovereignty...
Jorge I. Dominguez, associate professor of Government, said the actions could produce a backlash effect against the hostages. "When you retaliate in this fashion, it's one of the things you open yourself up to," he said...
...that ageism, thanks to a backlash that has come from such groups as the Gray Panthers, is becoming less virulent. One ought to add that attitudes had better change. American society contains an ever swelling number and proportion of older people. Today nearly 25 million Americans, or 11.2% of the total, are over 65, and the ratio of that bracket is rising sharply. To foreclose senior citizens from society's respect and affection will mean more in the future than pain to the graying population. It will mean serious generational conflict for everybody...
...only does this practice make the Carter Administration's concept of a "moral foreign policy" about as useful as old "Whip Inflation Now" buttons, but it tends to have serious backlash effects. When people in Tehran, Managua, and elsewhere see their neighbors gunned down by government troops using American tanks and M-16s, they often view the United States as an imperialist power supporting non-democratic regimes, not at all the image we try to portray to the nations of the Third World. While in some cases the U.S. may have to provide arms as a deterrent to Soviet expansion...
Since its beginnings in 1972, Ms. Magazine has been the only national voice of the feminist (r)evolution. Despite dissension, division, and backlash from within the movement as well as attack from without, Ms. has survived to provide what is probably the only real and complete record of woman's turbulent history of the last decade. In pictures and words compiled from Ms. and other sources, it chronicles not only the women's movement but the effect it has had on the rest of the world as well, quoting everyone from Angela Davis: "Let us then forge among ourselves...