Word: disaffectedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"It's the theater," lamented William Webster, former head of the fbi and a member of the White House security review committee that recommended closing Pennsylvania Avenue as well as a dozen other measures to tighten protection. Angry people seeking notoriety of all degrees find the stage they want at...
He must also fend off insinuations from liberal adversaries that his movement's antigovernment stands contributed to the poisonous rhetoric spewed by violent extremists like those responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing. "We must forsake violence of the fist, the tongue and the heart," he said last week, quoting Martin...
So many voters are disaffected that one opinion poll taken before the election indicated that 61% of respondents didn't think it would make any difference at all who won the presidency. Where there is not apathy, there is ominous extremism. In the first round of the election held on...
The bleak financial results only sharpened the bitter charges and countercharges over who was responsible for the collapse of the $2.7 billion firm, which earned $35.7 million in 1993 and had seemed primed for increased profits in 1994. Disaffected directors blamed Agee for withholding from them the true state of...
Agee partisans suggest that Velma Morrison, angered by Agee's curtailment of her perquisites after her departure from the board, launched a vendetta against him by rallying disaffected members of the corporate community and turning Clark and other directors against the chairman. Clark began heeding the advice of the self...