Word: discontentment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"People are led up with The B C Heights." Patrick Bennison, a member of the editorial board said of the campus daily. "The Heights is a horrible piece of journalism, run by a small liberal elite." He predicted that the new newspaper would catch on because of discontent with the...
Nor is discontent limited to a cadre of high level Washington liberals. Federal meat inspectors are protesting the Reagan administration's loosening of meat inspection standards, including proposals to speed up the number of birds to be inspected per minute from 70 to 105. More than 6000 workers last month...
The stepped-up criticism is attributable both to the movement's temperamental righteousness and to its political immaturity. "Their power mode," says a top Republican strategist, "is not properly adjusted to governing. They are better at Molotov cocktailing." Moreover, New Right fund raisers have a professional stake in continuing...
Off-year political elections traditionally give French voters a chance to show discontent with the government without risking national political upheaval. Giscard has hinted that the government should respond to a serious setback in the municipal elections by dissolving parliament and seeking a new national mandate. But the former President...
ALL OF THESE influences have much the same impact in the realm of off-campus politics. Radical programs for tearing down and replacing existing institutions did not spring full grown from the heads of early SDSers. Subsequent militance evolved slowly, as frustration mounted over a value system called "liberalism." Student...