Word: discontentment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The immediate aftermath of Apollo 8 was a land rush of follow-up flights. Said Thomas Paine, acting administrator of NASA in 1968: "We are at the onset of a program of space flights that will extend through many generations." Since then, there have been other triumphs and other disasters...
Montenegrins have good reason for their discontent: 25% of workers are jobless, and one-sixth of the population lives below the poverty level. Supporters of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic hailed the resignations as a victory in their drive to change the constitution. Montenegrins identify very closely with the Serbians, considering...
Although thousands of Africans have studied in China since 1950, the relationship has frequently been marred by the hosts' cultural prejudice. The latest round of confrontation also has a more mundane source: envy. Most of the 1,400 African students currently in the country get free tuition and room and...
The Soviet Union's winter of discontent is caused partly by the predictable functioning of the capitalist law of supply and demand. Soviet salaries have risen an average of roughly 8% over the past three years. Meanwhile, production of big-ticket consumer items like refrigerators and automobiles has been increasing...
Salinas' is but one voice in what has become a rising chorus of debtor discontent. Crippled by stagnant growth and a combined foreign debt of more than $400 billion, Latin American governments are finding it increasingly unacceptable to shoulder interest payments for loans that only push them deeper into the...