Word: discontentment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Spiking the stale beer of Britons' discontent-deepening recession, wallet-walloping new taxes-came a tulip glass of bubbly named Di. When blond, blue-eyed, 19-year-old Lady Diana Spencer made her first formal appearance last week as the fiancée of the Prince of Wales, she...
In this explosive atmosphere, the new Prime Minister, Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, chose to proceed as if he were walking through a minefield-which he was. To assert civilian control over restive soldiers, Calvo-Sotelo had to crack down on the known conspirators, but not so hard as to trigger another...
Nevertheless, organizers of the march expressed optimism about their struggle to demonstrate widespread discontent with President Reagan's policies toward El Salvador.
Discontent among Labor's moderates and right wing has been growing ever since the party's annual conference at Blackpool last fall, when some decidedly radical policies were adopted. The official party platform called for Britain's withdrawal from the European Community and extensive new nationalization of...
That sort of unbending self-reliance, when applied to monetarism at the expense of political considerations, has caused deep anxiety among many Tory M.P.s, who have to suffer the brunt of their constituents' discontent over unemployment, bankruptcies and shuttered businesses. Indeed, there is already speculation about Thatcher's political survival...