Word: discontentment
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Your story on Britain's summer of discontent fails to mention a key triggering element. Britain's frustrated lower classes have had a bellyful of exposure to overweening privilege, particularly during this time of a spectacle wedding.
Although there is no immediate threat to Thatcher's tenure, the debate showed that the Cabinet could rebel against her if there is no economic improvement by next spring. Says one minister: "Things will never be quite the same after last Thursday." A growing number of Conservative backbenchers fear...
Norbert Rissling, 25, is a conscientious objector to West Germany's military draft who opposes nuclear power and rearmament. He sits in a café in Bonn and probes the motivations underlying the discontent of young people. "We want what our parents have," he says with feeling, "and we...
When Ireland's parliamentary election campaign opened a month ago, Prime Minister Charles Haughey and his Fianna Fáil (Band of Destiny) party seemed invincible. The polls showed them comfortably ahead of their opponents; Haughey, 55, had sprinted into the lead like an Irish steeplechaser in a field...
It was at this point that the first seeds of Faculty discontent were sown, according to a number of professors. The politics of a university being what they are, many Faculty members knew something about the Ptashne arrangement before the administration let the official word out; and a good number...