Word: discontentment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some observers believe the sexual revolution has directly contributed to women's restlessness and discontent. The liberated woman's adoption of freer sexual attitudes can get in the way of emotional intimacy, suggests Connaught Marshner, executive editor of the Family Protection Report newsletter in Washington. "Unless the woman basically coaches...
Unemployment, new taxes and rising prices may prove to be a combustible mixture. Privately, Hungarian officials say that the regime has begun bracing for strikes and protests. "Things just keep getting worse," says Tamas, 19, a blue jeans-clad vegetable seller in Budapest. "Everyone I know thinks there's going...
However limited the leverage of the White House, though, no candidate can get away this year with the empty platitudes of past campaigns. Public discontent with education has reached a kind of critical mass, propelled by an unending barrage of reports criticizing various deficiencies in American schools. Last week a...
The visible side of Iranian life today -- the hundreds of thousands who march in support of Khomeini's pledge to exact vengeance from Iraq, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia -- underscores the fact that the Islamic government still enjoys considerable support. The invisible side is more difficult to assess, but there...
That situation should bode well for short-term U.S. competitiveness, but discontent among American workers is rising. Says Harley Shaiken, a labor economist at the University of California at San Diego: "It amounts to a reversal of the American dream." Agrees Rudy Oswald, chief economist for the AFL-CIO: "There...