Word: discontentment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three days after Cardenal's expulsion, Pedro Joaquin Chamorro Jr., editor of La Prensa, the country's only opposition paper, announced that he had temporarily moved to Costa Rica. Chamorro charged that censorship and travel restrictions had grown so severe since last month's national elections that...
On the surface, reform of the federal income tax, which has been debated for decades, would seem to be an idea whose time has finally arrived. The demand for change has been fueled by public indignation over reports that such highly profitable corporate giants as General Electric, Boeing, Dow Chemical...
The spirit may fizz away. It may leave little of substance. Or it could congeal into something meaner: smug, complacent, intolerant, jingoistic. Lipset suggests that if serious economic problems hit the country during the next couple of years, Americans will become bitterer than ever, and sink to new depths of...
Pinochet, who last month announced that he will not proceed with plans to call elections for Congress, seemed unmoved by the signs of growing discontent. The government imposed censorship on two radio stations and sued three magazines for supporting the protests. It has also threatened to hold the organizers legally...
Apparently furious at the prospect of East German Leader Erich Honecker's tentatively scheduled visit to West Germany Sept. 26-29, the Soviets stepped up their efforts last week to sow discontent between the two countries. Soviet commentators did little to else but denounce West German "revanchism," the desire...