Word: discontentedness
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Like Exxon, other oil companies operating in Libya are discontented, particularly with Gaddafi's high prices, royalties and taxes. Mobil, for one, announced late last week that it was considering pulling out. Only Occidental, which negotiated a special price concession from Gaddafi two months ago, says that it firmly...
Even the relatively glamorous sports of football and hockey have their share of discontented athletes. Although attrition may be due to competition in his than in other sports, Dave Clemenes, the gridders' defensive coach, admits, "It's not always the third stringer that comes to me and wants to quit...
In 1909 he settled down in England, with a small income, a conservative club (the Cocoa Tree), a cottage in Surrey (for Ethel) and growing celebrity as a writer of comic short stories. But nobody ever takes a comic writer seriously, and, Saki complained, "a humorist is almost invariably expected...
The groups, Davis and other discontented members say, are operating in a "political vacuum." "We should have stuck to our guns," says one NOW staffer who asks not to be identified, nothing that failing to endorse Anderson has splintered both groups and alienated some members to the point where they...
Arcosanti receives periodic pummelings from discontented workshoppers and journalists. Soleri and his group shrug them off. Their commitment to the future certainly seems sincere. They are people who want to be part of something big and good and natural. Each year they cele brate the solstices and the equinoxes with...