Word: discontentment
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Throughout the fall, President Bush's re-election team has invoked John Major as its model of the incumbent who squeaks by in spite of a weak economy and polls predicting his defeat. But if one looks at what has happened to the British Prime Minister since his victory last...
THE END CAME WITH ALL THE BITTERNESS of a military surrender. For weeks General Motors chairman Robert Stempel had tried to ignore the signals of discontent radiating from a hostile band of outside directors. When Stempel was hospitalized with an attack of high blood pressure, board members did not bother...
That Clinton has in fact come so close might easily be ascribed primarily to luck. After all, the heftiest Democrats -- men like Mario Cuomo, Lloyd Bentsen and Dick Gephardt -- decided to sit the election out, leaving Clinton to battle a field of second-stringers for the nomination. Ross Perot, having...
It's not that the atmosphere is sexist, the women add; it just reminds them of their fathers. In addition, they feel oppressed by the Anglo-Saxon tone of the clubs, calling them "WASP theme parks." One female ex-member of the Tavern Club summed up the discontent by saying...
With a strong French "oui," the other EC members could have, perhaps, forced Denmark to change its mind. But with discontent appearing in a number of countries, no thinking person seriously believes the Danes will change their minds unless the treaty undergoes serious revision. Furthermore, Britain won't even consider...