Word: disaffectedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The unions see plenty of opportunities to reach disaffected working stiffs. For almost 20 years, wages have stagnated, held down by unending rounds of layoffs and job migration, as the global economy continued to exert its pull. Even in a booming U.S. economy with record low unemployment, labor has only...
According to Janet L. "Lee" Aitken '72, "People were saying 'I did feel disaffected and alienated for most of my time there'...Alienation was kind of the main theme."
In the U.S., Truell backtracks the French story, relying for information on a disaffected CIA agent he knew in Paris. There seems to be a lot of disaffection at the CIA, a sclerotic bureaucracy, as the author tells it, lacking in clear purpose and shaken by its own incompetence. Truell...
It was not so simple at first to pitch the deal to congressional Democrats, who thought Clinton had given up too much in tax cuts and got too little in return. More than half the 206 House Democrats issued a letter to Clinton to make sure he knew about "our...
So it's official--the album was designed to respond to trends, not to create them. That popularity begets popularity shouldn't be a surprise, I suppose, except for the fact that popularity is so often unpopular. Still, one would think there would be room for a disaffected minority.