Word: discontentment
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Tower's declaration, coupled with Majority Leader Howard Baker's decision last January not to seek reelection, reflects a rumbling discontent among top Senate Republicans. "A lot of people are frustrated," says William Cohen of Maine, who is up for re-election next year."Some think that the...
Perhaps the one trait that makes both men and women distinctively Japanese is their extreme deference to the harmony of the group. Says Author and Feminist Yumiko Yansson, explaining why Japanese women remain mostly kakure feministo (closet feminists), despite their increasing discontent: " 'Resignation is the first lesson of life...
Other writers, discontent with the standard forms of literary expression have begun to create a new genre, blurring the already eroded line between fiction and nonfiction. Shohei Ooka's The Long Slope recalls the Imperial Army's crimes of World War II through courtroom records of the Far...
"If the department had acted by itself, it probably would have looked about the same," Alonso said. Another department member, Professor of Social Relations Phililp J. Stone added: The whole list was considered acceptable so there's no sense of discontent with the four."
The upset reflected popular discontent with the often cynical and lackluster PRI leadership. It was also a sign that Mexicans have become impatient with the stringent austerity measures that President Miguel de la Madrid imposed to restore health to Mexico's anemic economy. The peso lost more than three...