Word: chafes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quite grounds for declaring a counterrevolution. Yet there are other signs that the constraints imposed by Proposition 13 have begun to chafe. A position paper compiled by assemblyman Tom Hayden points out that California, once a leader of progressive government, has dropped to near last place among the 50 states and the District of Columbia in measures of living quality, including per capita spending on schools, classroom size and housing affordability...
...government stops delivering good times, Kenyans may follow the recent pattern in a number of other African countries and begin to agitate for changes. In the past few years, Moi has given them more and more reason to chafe at his rule. Claiming to make the political system inherited from British colonizers more "indigenous," Moi has stripped the judiciary of its independence, cowed parliament, banned critical publications and fostered a personality cult. Discontent erupted in riots last February that were among the worst in recent years when the still unsolved murder of Foreign Minister Robert Ouko, whom some Kenyans suspect...
...partners are "getting along extremely well," Turner says, relaxing in a stuffed chair in his spacious Atlanta office, cluttered with silver trays, banners and other memorabilia. But he admits that the restraints often chafe. "My hands are absolutely tied. This is not my company anymore." The board has scotched some of Turner's ideas (like a proposal to buy the Financial News Network, and another to lease part of New York City's Pan Am Building and emblazon it with the CNN logo). But it approved one of his boldest moves: the October 1988 launch...