Word: chafe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next little period was pretty routine. They lived near Bordeaux. Janis free-lanced articles. Michel started his firm. Sean was born in 1979, the year his father began to chafe. "I was 90% businessman. I was wearing a mask all the time." He would project himself as a man of the masses when dealing with socialist clients, could quickly affect a monied mien for the benefit of the capitalists, and felt like a fraud. It was also in 1979 that the couple bought the boat, for about $35,000, and began to lay plans...
Duke University historian William Chafe suggested that the women's movement has been split over its tactics. While some women's groups hope to advance the status of all women through non-hierarchical organizations which emphasize participatory democracy, others, he said, have sought individual gains over that of the whole group...
...Chafe went on to endorse the more inclusive of the two factions, saying "the progress made underlines the importance of the collectivist remedies...
While some segments of the middle class chafe under their restrictions, the kingdom's religious leaders constantly call for closer adherence to puritanical Islamic rules. Many of their strictures are directed at women. One recent decree banned them from riding alone in taxis or hotel limousines. In Riyadh and Jidda, black-robed women must board buses through the back door and sit separately from men. In some parts of the kingdom, a husband can divorce a wife simply by repeating "I divorce thee" three times...
...commentary piece advocating the "isolation" of AIDS carriers, Jeff Wise writes that "no society is eager to adopt measures which chafe against its most basic conceptions of defency." Yet Mr. Wise's comments belie this sentiment. He is eager to ignore the faces of AIDS in his zealousness to ship AIDS carries to concentration camps--oops, I mean "special treatment centers...