Word: discontentment
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Joblessness, price hikes and discontent
Still, there is no question that the slump in production and the rise in prices and joblessness are breeding dangerous discontent. In Czechoslovakia "almost half the population is dissatisfied and nonsupportive of economic reform," says Marek Boguszak, president of a Prague opinion-research firm. "The hardship is almost at the...
Popular discontent is running deep, as evidenced by a wave of strikes. When respondents were asked in a recent survey which of six leaders governed Poland best, "none of the above" came in first with 28%, followed by "no answer" with 18%. Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Poland's first noncommunist Prime Minister...
Still, nobody can match Le Pen in playing on the resentment of petits blancs (poor whites) toward the immigrants. Now he is appealing to other kinds of discontent. He is making a strong pitch to farmers worried that European integration will strip away their accustomed subsidies, and is even putting...
But there may have to be firmness and tough enforcement of law and discipline. A strengthening of executive power -- not a dictatorship -- is necessary during this transitional period. The conservatives and reactionaries, after their defeat, are gathering strength and hoping to take advantage of the country's difficulties. There is...