Word: discomfort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Democrats. First the President outraged many Republicans by backing away from his "no new taxes" pledge. Then, after both sides agreed to submit budget proposals simultaneously in late July, the Administration plan leaked and Republicans, seeing that it was studded with new taxes, bolted. The Democrats, relishing Bush's discomfort, withheld their ideas, and the summit collapsed without discussion of specific new revenues or spending cuts...
...additional irony that the increase in the minimum wage may actually leave some families worse off. When household incomes creep up, many workers find themselves suddenly ineligible for the food stamps, housing allowances and Medicaid that have made the difference between mere discomfort and true desperation...
...what if the blockade is effective and Saddam proves as good as his threat to make sure his Western "guests" suffer the same fate as Iraqis? The Administration's answer is that it would try to fine-tune the effort to maximize the discomfort of Iraqis, and thus the political pressure on Saddam, without causing actual starvation. To stave off a famine, it might, for example, agree to permit emergency shipments of baby formula and grain...
...outearned by their wives. They dismiss their wives' higher earnings with phrases like "I say more power to her" and "I don't feel threatened by it." Inevitably, such statements are followed by the words "I have a strong ego," a defensive refrain that seems to betray a discomfort not yet resolved...
...That discomfort is certain to deepen as more working women find their career paths leading to a relocation. Women are still the "trailing spouse" in 94% of all job transfers that involve couples. But that is changing rapidly. By the end of the decade, almost a quarter of all transferees are expected to be + women, up from 5% just 10 years ago. Feelings of resentment, helplessness and dependency that have long plagued displaced working women promise to be harsher for men. While potential employers rarely find it odd that a wife has given up a job to trail her husband...