Word: discontentment
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On his decision. Seeing all those demonstrations, the discontent and anger, I tried to look for the answer to the situation. I met with many leaders from many walks of life and listened patiently to what they said. I also met with young students and had a chance to talk...
That situation should bode well for short-term U.S. competitiveness, but discontent among American workers is rising. Says Harley Shaiken, a labor economist at the University of California at San Diego: "It amounts to a reversal of the American dream." Agrees Rudy Oswald, chief economist for the AFL-CIO: "There...
Such open splits are still rare, but the new Afrikaner discontent is having its effect even on politicians loyal to Botha. Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha (no relation to the President) told an election rally this month that some of the social restrictions of apartheid are absurd. "I cannot understand...
Novelist Andre Brink (Knowledge of the Night), some of whose work has been banned in South Africa, agrees: "If faced with the ultimate choice between sharing and going under, the Masada complex need not prevail. There is still a chance -- small and diminishing rapidly -- of entering into the kind of...
Will the coalition government fall apart? That is a question very much on Israelis' minds, but few are willing to venture an answer. Despite the general discontent, polls show that Israelis do not want to go to the polls before the elections scheduled for November 1988. Surprisingly, for all the...