Word: discontentment
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Though the opposition ranks keep growing, it is impossible to gauge with any certainty the extent of the discontent. Some polls claim Gamsakhurdia's popularity has dwindled to just 20%. His followers counter that support for the president still runs as high as 80%. That sounds wildly optimistic, but there...
For the Social Democrats, architects of Sweden's cradle-to-grave welfare system, it was the worst trouncing at the polls since 1928. All told, they won only 138 seats in the 349-member Riksdag, or Parliament, and just 38% of the popular vote. Behind their defeat was widespread discontent...
What was planned as a melodious welcome for first-year students turned into a cacophonous near-riot Wednesday night, as hundreds of students denied entrance into the annual a capella jam in Sanders Theatre prowled restlessly around Memorial Hall, simmering with discontent.
Throughout Soviet history, Kremlin leaders have taken special care to prevent the army from interfering in the nation's internal politics. Yet the new order being established by Mikhail Gorbachev was not the kind that soldiers were accustomed to living with. Pulled out of Afghanistan, shown the door in Eastern...
It would be wrong, however, to assume this discontent will translate into the demise of Castro and Cuba's brand of tropical socialism. While some 175 million live in poverty in Latin America, there are no beggars on the streets of Havana. The infant mortality rate is 10.7 per 1...