Word: discontentedness
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Paradoxically, many U.S. consumers are discontented even while they are the envy of contemporary civilization ?the best-fed, best-clothed, most pampered people in history. Most companies have a self-interest in promoting product safety and performance, if only to induce customers to buy and buy again. Since the...
Blaine then told his audience that on most college campuses "the student body falls generally into four categories. About 58 per cent are conformists-glad to be part of an educational community [and] fairly content with what is being offered them . . . . Another 30 per cent are discontented . . . [and] have a...
These highly dubious categories and percentages came to life as Blaine presented "the battle plan of the SDS." which amounted to little more than his interpretation of last April at Harvard. "First." he said. "a cause is found which has some support already among the students . . . Then, ostensibly to force...
Blaine offered a cure for campus unrest along with his diagnosis. "The reformers and the discontented must be listened to and action taken on those demands which are reasonable ," he said.
Pyrrhic Victory. While the Republicans stewed, Senate Democrats, for the most part, kept their own counsel on Haynsworth. By not making the confirmation a test of loyalty for Democrats, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield left maneuvering room for discontented Republicans and increased chances of a negative vote on Haynsworth. If...