Word: disaffectedness
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The cantonal elections are not crucial in themselves, and at week's end runoffs still had to be decided through a second round of voting in almost two-thirds of the districts. Nonetheless, the last bout of nationwide voting before the all important parliamentary elections next March was scrutinized on...
What rescued The Hunt from the publishing boneyard was Clancy's gripping narrative. Navy buffs and thriller adepts have been mesmerized by the story of Soviet Submarine Captain Marko Ramius, who seeks to defect to the U.S., bringing a billion-dollar present with him. This is Red October, a ballistic...
THE VOLATILITY of the Iowa race reflects the deep political division within the state. Jepsen has a lock on the 40 percent of the electorate that votes solid conservative, and Harkin has a similarly sized bed of committed liberal support. That leaves the middle 20 percent of the voters to...
Nonetheless, he also focuses on the next two weeks as the period during which Mondale must win back enough disaffected Democrats to produce some perceptible improvement in his national-poll standings. Says Strauss: "They have to come back through the door for him.
According to disaffected Iranian officials, the decision to mine the Red Sea is an aspect of the terrorism to which Iran is resorting in the face of military weakness and domestic troubles. The country confronts increasing difficulty in buying arms on the world market, partly because the U.S. has made...